I just finished my second journal and started in my third... Since I just all of a sudden started this blog, and never really explained why I do what I do, I thought this would be a good momentum to explain a little bit.

I started my journal as an application project for art school. When I had my first interview at art school, I got the following assignment for the second interview:

Visual journal

Create an image for at least 21 days about an aspect of that certain day. Use different techniques. Try new - especially new to you - techniques and materials. Try to integrate text and image. Size is free, you can work in a dummy.

And here I am - working every day on something simple of more complicated, just depending on my mood, long after the first 21 days and even long after I heard I got accepted in school. This journal has become a very rewarding element in my life, really. It is just a great thought of going to bed knowing you made something, even though it might be a very simple collage that took only 10 minutes to make. It pushes me to discover new things and has learned me a lot.

Also the journal is the basis for the blog, which has been even more rewarding than the journal itself. And to thank you for all your wonderful comments, which are so appreciated, I am making three suprise packages for YOU!*

So, just leave a comment or drop a line if you are interested and I, or even better, an "objective third party", will pick three names from the respondents next Saturday, from 10.00 CET.



*This good tradition is started by Amy of Posy Press, who did a similar thing a week ago where moi was in fact one of the happy winners :-)