Cahier de Dessin (Vintage Collage Art Journal) Part 2

This collage art journal is vintage in theme and about 70% of the ephemera and other found objects within this journal are real (ie real photo's etc). Most of this ephemera I have found in junk shops or on line auction sites - almost given away as junk. I have given it new life within a genuine vintage school book from France.

Part 1 can be seen by clicking on this link:

Part 1


This then is Part 2: 

Up-cycled 'Junk into Art' Journal No: 2, 2018

This journal is full to the brim with all of these bits of paper classified as junk and usually thrown out. To save land fill, I turn  junk mail, bits of paper, food labels, stamps, scraps of other paper and all else into collage art-form. I include bits of ephemera I have on hand to jazz it up a bit!  

Up-cycling junk into art...very satisfying!

Mail Art Postcard: 'Coming Up Trumps'.

Bangkok and Me: Composite (Altered Book Style) Travel Journal 1998-2008 PART 1

I spent a lot of time in Bangkok during the years 1998-2008. During those years I came to love the city: the noise, the smells, the people, the golden temples, the radiant palaces, the klongs (canals), the infinite amount of Soi's (streets) and the squalor. I loved every aspect of Bangkok which, in the end, revitalized my senses and even in the noise - brought me peace. 

During that time, I did not do a travel journal specifically for my time/s in Bangkok. Now I am retired I thought it was time to do something with all the paper memories, the photo's and all the bits 'n'pieces one collects from the road most traveled - a box full!

I was wondering what would be the 'avatar' - the vehicle for all of these memories? I could not decide which type of journal I would use...until  I walked into one of those 2nd hand bookstores and went through their 'Bargain Bin'...and there was a book entirely about Bangkok which I decided to use as my avatar. So in effect, this travel journal is in the form of an altered book. It contains tip-in's, ephemera, photo's washi tapes, rubber stamping, drawings, paintings, tickets and everything one can think of that has 'memory' attached mostly laid out in collage form (my favourite art style).

We all have places that stay within our hearts...this is mine.