Concept Journals

The third kind is more of a piece of art. It starts with a concept or artwork I find. This maybe images from a book or calendar, photos I’ve acquired, an idea from a book or tv show – there’s no real limit to what it could be. The end results are still evolving, but can be structurally more complex either way multiple fold outs, different shapes, altering the pages of an existing book, or created within a box with related items inside as well. For example a very plain journal is in a wooden box with a pen and ink. The ephemera is in envelopes so the journal is completely clear of distractions. An old box with a train set on it I recycled to add a journal with steam trains in it, and a small train set. It was sold within seconds of appearing. More recently I told a story of an actress and a soldier in WW1 France, using a black paper photo album. I added time and location specific ephemera, and love the way it tells the story of their romance

This journal comes in a wooden box I sourced, includes a plain journal with lots of writing space, a pen and ink, plus ephemera placed beneath that can be utilized.