As a calligrapher, I am fascinated with words. Journalling provides a way for me to discover my voice as a calligraphic artist, and to trust using my own words in the art I create. My journals are ends in themselves, not rehearsals for something else. I continue to be surprised and inspired by what shows up on the pages of my visual calligraphic journals, some images of which I share in this section. |
Black Journal and Red Journal evolved over several years. I worked (played?) intuitively, improvisationally, my intention being to discover what my own artistic voice is.
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Red Journal
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Black Journal
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| The South Padre (Island) Journal began as blank pages of arches textwove paper gathered in an unbound single section. I had brought derwent watercolor pencils and micron pens to the beach and decided I wanted to draw a hibiscus flower. I plucked a flower, parked myself at my mother-in-law’s large dining room table which faces the beach, and started to draw. |
I completed the rest of the section over the course of several months, and added two more sections as well. It is stitched and waiting to be bound! |
South Padre Journal
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Song of Sharon
The Desert knows what I
seek in eternity,
I feel my body in the
face of the rocks
Landscape carved by
ancient storms, wind and river,
AWAKEN!
Canyon sunrise
breath, spirit, light,
a peace of my day
I sing to sage and catcus flowers
and dance the sky in my own time,
a Cholla rose of the valley,
Sharon.
(S. Zeugin, 04)
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Handmade Journal
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Color Exp Black Journal
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