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Flow Art

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  Flow Art Going for the grunge; accepting what is, and letting it all flow. Weekend retreat hosted by Jenny Grant. The first part of the retreat we made a zine journal from a single piece of paper. In my case, I used an old file folder (I have hundreds of used folders left over from our winter filing cabinet purge), collaged on top of it, and painted random mark-making embellishments. I wish I had taken a photo of the whole collage before I folded and cut it.  After folding and gluing pages together and while waiting for it to dry, I set about making a book band with an old rusty piece of metal  that was part of a framed collage of pins and other artifacts that I got for a few bucks at the Garibaldi Museum yard sale many years ago. I have no idea of its original use, but it took quite a bit of thought to figure out a way of fastening it. Fun to get out the old beads and leather from my jewelry supply stash.  Decorating the cover was an act of serendipity. Some found...