ONE YEAR OF DAILY COLLAGES IN QUARANTINE

Today marks one year of doing these daily collages in quarantine. I started making them a week into staying home as something relaxing to do in the afternoon. As things really shut down and my then first grader son was doing school from home, I no longer had any time of my own. All my other creative outlets took up too much time or brain space that I didn’t have the bandwidth for. The daily routine of these was manageable and engaging enough creatively to keep me going. Most days, I was able to carve out an hour for myself in the afternoon to sit down and cut out paper, drink coffee and paste a collage together. As it became more of a daily routine it became clear that it was a form of self care that carried me along the days and helped me feel more grounded during such traumatic times.

After a week or so of doing them on different loose paper, my husband gave me one of these composition books he had ordered in bulk. I really only thought I would fill part of one…

Stacks of paper on paper, I love the bits that jut out of the edges and how they change the compositions as you move though the book.