Symbolic Projections

Dare I ask, what is a travel journal? I will be the first to admit that I ventured down this road without the slightest clue as to what I was getting into. Back in June, as I turned-in my IRB application and took a break from dissertation writing I decided a change was in order. Not a permanent one, oh no. Just a small change lasting the entirety of the month of July (give or take a few days). That is how I began down the path of making the journal. Initially I referred to it as my July Journal. The one I would toil over the course of the month of July and my pending travels (to the country of Texas and back to my humble Florida). My very first was last year at this time, that book was made in an accordion style from 1 sheet of paper. In it I documented the events surrounding the AATA 2013 conference in Seattle. The nitty-gritty: book measures about 7.5”x3”x?(its still growing) Cover: I used cardboard sections cut from a found box for the cover & chose to cov

Returning from this years’ AATA Conference in San Antonio thankful to have connected and reconnected with so many amazing art therapists. It’s been busy and I didn’t mean to set the blog aside, but here’s some visual yummies to begin to make things up. Last August (yep, 2013) I made a small accordion book. In this accordion style, I essentially pieces together several strips of paper into one continuous page that folds at repeating intervals. I gave the book purpose when I decided to use it as a place to document art techniques. These art techniques were small samplings of ones I would be using in my groups. Today I completed the small book and am posting some of the images here with brief dialogue on some of the techniques. If there's interest I will consider separate posts later-on. Book Cover: Layered tissue paper with pressed leaves. Accordion style pages were 'seamed' with strips of tea bags. On left: Tea bag sheets can be used to age/antique.   On