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Submitting My Work to an Online Exhibition — A Small but Real Step

Before I Submitted Anything For a long time, my collages existed only in my own space. I shared them online,

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One Year Project · Days 220-230/313 #oneyearproje

One Year Project · Days 220-230/313

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Day 1 vs. Day 162. On Day 1, I tried to draw the c

Day 1 vs. Day 162.
On Day 1, I tried to draw the cracks and textures I kept noticing in the city.
It didn't work.
So I put the idea aside.
But I kept making.

And on Day 30 and Day 162, I realized the idea hadn't disappeared at all. It had found its way back into my work through something completely different: Gelli Plate printing and old packaging materials
Sometimes you don't need to know how to make an idea work.

You just need to keep making and stay open to where it might lead.

I tell the whole story in my latest YouTube video: “What Happens When You Stay With an Idea?”

A friend gave me an envelope filled with different

A friend gave me an envelope filled with different papers, and I chose one to experiment with.

I prepared the paper with paint and then started adding colour, printed shapes and collage elements.

Vintage Paper background ist one of my favourites.

What happens when you look at an everyday object a

What happens when you look at an everyday object a little differently?

I started experimenting with old clothing labels and loved the simple grids, lines and shapes they created when I used them for printing.

One small experiment led to another. I tried different colours, different combinations and different ways of layering the prints. Some became collage material, some stayed as experiments.

I didn't have a finished image in mind when I started. I was simply following what caught my attention.
This is a big part of how I work: noticing, experimenting and seeing where an idea leads.

Sometimes the material is already there. You just have to look at it differently.

Use what you have. I had these old clothing label

Use what you have.

I had these old clothing labels lying around and started wondering what kind of marks they could make.

So I used them for printing — and loved the grids and lines they created.

Then I added them to old paper and started building a small collage from the pieces.

I didn't have a finished image in mind.

I was just using what was already there and following what caught my attention.

Sometimes you don't need new materials or a new idea.
Sometimes you just need to look at what you already have a little differently.

Day 210. I printed on tissue paper using old clot

Day 210.

I printed on tissue paper using old clothing labels — and I loved the unexpected grid they created.

Then came the layers: primary colors, transparency, lines and geometric shapes.

I really like how these different elements started to talk to each other.

I didn't have a finished image in mind when I started. I was simply following what caught my attention.
Another small experiment, another little discovery.

Days 200–210 of my year-long art project. Ten day

Days 200–210 of my year-long art project.

Ten days of prints, collage, layers, color and small discoveries.

At this point in the project, I'm less interested in knowing exactly where a piece will end up. I'm more interested in paying attention to what catches my eye and following it a little further.

This ongoing collection of observations and experiments is what I call my Sensory Diary.

Not a collection of finished answers — but a record of what I notice along the way.

I have no idea what comes next. And I think that’s

I have no idea what comes next. And I think that’s the point.

I made this printed tissue paper during one of my recent Gelli Plate experiments. It wasn’t really planned. I was simply playing, trying things, making something and moving on.

Now I’m using it as the first layer on an MDF board I prepared a long time ago.
And that’s all I know so far.

I don’t have a finished image in my head. I don’t know what the next layer will be. I’m just going to leave it there for a while and see what happens.

Maybe this is one of the things I’m learning through my daily practice: not every piece needs to begin with a plan. Sometimes you just need a place to start.

What about you — do you usually know where a piece is going when you start?

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Today I visited the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and ca

Today I visited the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and came home with a few little things from the museum — tickets, the September programme and a postcard.

Instead of putting them away, I used them for today's Sensory Diary.

I made transfer prints from the papers and then added them to my Art Journal.

I love that a day doesn't have to be documented with photographs or words. Sometimes a few colours, marks or pieces of paper are enough to leave a trace.

A small trace of the day.

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