Passport to Journal

Bring your (or someone else’s) old (expired) passport. Honor its bearer’s identity and its travels. Do not ignore its stories and histories. And then! Forget about its former purpose. Make it about your ’other’ journeys. Strip it from its formality and stiffness. Add your visual and biographical anecdotes. Add pages, many of them. Allow for playfulness and for the interplay between the concealing and revealing of visual information. Permit a spontaneous and sensorial celebration of opposites. Be care-full and care-free as you create a voluminous flow of intimate pages, as you transform an official document into a warm nest of gatherings to be cradled in your hands. Make it so rich and abundant that it cannot close shut, so that it forever stays an open book!

Supply List

• Please read the workshop description attentively and gather plenty of passport ’fillers’ with intent. Some ideas: lots of small and personal images, photographs, scraps of paper, envelopes, old letters, postal stamps, newspaper clips, clippings of old journal pages. Two dimensional objects such as feathers, ribbons, cloth bags, etc. I’ll treat you with my own finds as well.
  
  
• Art materials (i.e. favorite pens, markers, pastels, etc.)
• Cutting tools (i.e. scissors, metal ruler, etc.)
• Adhesives (i.e. glue sticks, clear, decorative and masking tape, etc.)