Week 2 - Intuitive Collage + Zine-making

Week 2 - Collecting

This week's focus is the art of collecting what you're drawn to as an expression of you. This goes deeper than what the mind knows - it's sensing and feeling intuitively.

If you missed last week's missive, you can start with Week 1 here.

Start here:

Before you dive into your practice of collecting, pause for a moment.

What's the last thing you collected? Like picked up off the ground, thrifted, or scored in a laneway. And what drew you to it?

How we will be collecting...

This week, we will be cutting out and collecting things that we'll be using in our collage next week.

Your job is to gather what is interesting, or meaningful, or wondrous TO YOU from your materials. In other words, scan through your magazines (or doodles, or photos, etc.) and cut something out if it makes you smile, do a double take, or draws you in.

There are three types of things you should cut out:

1. Symbols (think: people, animals, things)

2. Words of meaning

3. Entire scenes: rip the whole page out when the whole scene is just too good to cut up, or for landscapes or textures. We can use these pieces to create a background layer in our collage phase next week.

Don’t think too deeply and cut out more than you need so you have lots of things to choose from next week (when we get into collaging). Lastly - go for speed and cut roughly BUT safely. Please.

Ok that's all! Put on some cool tunes and set a timer if you have only 30-minutes to spare so you're free to get lost in the process.

Some symbols

Some words of meaning

A whole scene I kept

Ursula, the most discerning of all collectors

Lastly, I really want to know in the comments...

What does it feel like to be drawn to something you want to collect? What do you notice happens? And also, what's the most interesting thing you collected from your materials?

Here's mine. It stopped me in my tracks to look deeper. I felt deeply connected to it and intrigued, without really knowing why.

Happy collecting.