This is the art journal I started in April 2020. Obviously a BIT of a hectic time here on this planet, and especially in New York City. There was lot of processing going on in these pages.

I tend to note the date that I start my art journals, and not the date I finish them. (Often, I will write “established on xyz date” inside the front cover — this one was on established on April 20th, 2020.) But I never really consider them “all done” because I always feel free to go back in and do more. (in this type of a journal, I don’t go from page to page sequentially, I build layers on multiple pages over time.) In filming, I did see a few pretty unfinished pages, and one entirely blank spread! This hardly ever happens. I’m tempted to leave it just as an indicator of what an unusually disorganizing time it was.

I worked on this book most actively through the Fall of last year, when other art journals began to capture more of my attention. But because I tend to work on each art journal most intensely during a specific period of time, they really do end up being something of a time capsule. It’s funny how many pages I’ve already totally forgotten about, just a year later. And some of these pages have already gone on to have additional lives as inspirations for other art works, or as art works on their own.