RAW: collage with crayon and black marker on 11 x 14 dry media paper by Tammy Vitale.
I'm going to start working in my Vision Journal with images intuitively made from a stack of interesting magazine pages and collected collage pieces. These pages aren't planned. I sit with the TV on, and start grabbing items from my pile randomly. I let my left brain be occupied with what is on TV and just move. Much like a free write in pictures. Whatever is trying to break through isn't going to do it with words, I'm afraid. So I will try this for a while.
Since I won't be writing, here's an excerpt from an Art in America article, Guardians of the Avant Guarde," Sept 2008. This will be my last issue. Can't say I've learned much from having it come monthly…or at least much that I consider necessary to my art or my education about art.
Women, of course, were barely allowed in the Abstract-Expressionist door, and [Maurice] Berger's [who curated "Action/Abstraction"'s context rooms at the Jewish Museum in New York] extraordinarily informative time line in the catalogue gives us chilling examples of the barriers they faced. In 1946 an unamed male critic…reviewing Louise Nevelson's first major exhibition wrote, 'We learned that the artist was a woman, in time to check our enthusiasm. Had it been otherwise, we might have hailed these sculptural expressions as by surely a great figure among the moderns.' And Lee Krasner [wife of Jackson Pollock] speaking of Hans Hofmann, the leading teacher of his day, said, 'I can remember very clearly his criticism one day when he came in and said about [my] painting 'this is so good you would not believe it was done by a woman.'
Here are some more journal pages…enjoy! (Titles, in order, are: Power, Sing my Song and the last picture is just a crayon enhanced page of things I'd like in a house…lots of windows, high ceilings.
thought for the day: Why do we punish ourselves with unreasonable expectations, putting life on hold until we reach them? What is the real danger of such pressures? They delay living, the real life right in front of us. "I'll do that when, " we say to ourselves. "I can't do that now because I haven't yet done this." It's like having an incomplete in your graduate Milton class that just keeps hanging over you, making it impossible for you to do anything else because your comprhensive exegesis of the two parallel falls of Paradise Lost looms ahead of you at every turn… Enough! Patty Digh Life is a Verb
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[…] I use a spiral bound sketchbook for my Vision Journal and the pages are specific intentions. I gather ideas for work I want to do on my house, in my garden, my business and myself. I play with free writing over the pictures and crayon coloring around them. You can see more of my Vision Journal pages here. […]
Great idea for breaking through. Sort of like SoulCollage cards, only in a journal…
Oh, now this is wierd. I've committed to 6 weeks of making an intuitive collage every day… and I look over, and you are collaging too!!!!
Last night's collage didn't go so well… as I read your post, i realized the reason. I did NOT have the TV on. My inner OCD scary woman was completely involved in the process instead of hypmotized by the hotness of Brendan Frasier. (I watched the Mummy Returns the day before as I collaged, and that went SO much better!!!) My inner self couldn't be heard over the scary woman's shrieks and compulsive worrying.
So glad to be female in this time and not during other time periods… If a man had made those kind of remarks about my art, I might have been jailed for murder.
interesting reading of Lee Krasner; wondering where her art would have went if she were not pollock's wife; constantly taking care of him. Sad that she died such a painful death when there are medications now.
Haven't blogged for ages Tammy but love your blog and it is truly inspirational to visit here. Your art work is amazing and I will keep checking out these great pages
Hugs
Jessie James
You are so artistic and talented. Thanks for sharing with us. I wish that I was a bit more artistic. I haven't much talent in that area.
I agree with the thought you put in from "Life is a Verb".
Thanks for visiting my blog. I always enjoy your remarks.
Keep up your good works.
I love your journal pages. I want to play. This looks very interesting. Thanks for the motivation.
great idea to do these visual journal pages. i hope that things are becoming clearer!