2014 — July
This was a flat-lay of all the art supplies I started with for the art journal, minus the papers and magazine cuttings.
This series of spreads, some of the ones I made in the second month of the challenge, explored the tension between wanting to open up and share about myself through the art journal, and my reluctance to be seen.
I would always share up to a certain point, especially while within a crowd — but I'd hit the wall of close-down if attention was directed at me.
That made it hard to deal with people liking my work, which the other artists in the online challenge did.
I created a third space of metaphorical self-exposure to try and deal with this ambivalence. It carried through a lot of my work for the following year.