So we just went through a 35 part daily journaling exercise. As a final hurrah to my journal, I packaged mine up and I’m now sending it to my best friend in Stockholm. There are a few pages left in it, and we’ll see if she adds to it. It’s hers to keep and do with what she will.
This next series will be about ARTISTS- one artist a week for 10 weeks- and we use that artist as a starting point for personal exploration.
- Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
- Lisa Larson (1931- )
- George Grosz (1893-1959)
- Faith Ringgold (1930- )
- Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
- Willem de Kooning 1904-1997
- Otto Dix (1891-1969)
- Sue Coe (1951-)
- Lucian Freud (1922- 2011)
Continue in your existing journal or start a new one, like I had to do.
I plan the following [flexible] format during the course of a week as we explore each artist:
See you tomorrow with our first subject FRIDA KAHLO! (For those of you that know me, I hear you all yelling “duh!!!”)
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.
― Frida Kahlo
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