Journaling

One of the most powerful things we humans have. The ability to grasp a pen, pencil, crayon, chalk, stone, lump of clay.

Then make a mark.

Bring that power to pieces of paper, stitched together into a book, you have your own place of expression. Yours.

 

That's Journaling. Powerful. Transformative. The heart beat of you.

This expression is your creation, the inside brought out. It's your human. Thoughts, feelings, angers, tendernesses. Throw down your desires, resentments, loves, passions, wants. All of it. Constructive and destructive.

Keep your journals private? Or declare to the world. This is your choice. Your marks are your words. You control your own story.

When you're done, you choose. 

Keep it? Discard it? Use it as the start point for another creation? Make a published book of it? Paint the words over and turn it into a work of art to handle?

Your options are limitless. 

Then try it for a week, or a month. Start with stitched papers and your favourite mark-making stick.

The Knicker Drawer Note Books are then simply your framework. 

Here to help you start, invite you to return, open doors of possibility, inspire unpredictability, and just be there for you whenever you need.

Your book is the change in the story

Here is your Knicker Drawer Note Book.

 

I create these books from materials discarded, left-over, unwanted. The way I make them - with frayed edges, torn papers, broken stitches, lose bindings - use the language of grief, loss, vulnerability: the idea that what was lost, can never be regained.

So my entire book becomes a new assemblage of breakage, of broken parts. And from all the bits, the discarded, the ephemera, the thrown away, the useless, the pointless, the no-longer-needed, comes something whole, coherent, amazing! 

A new and different expression with the world. The start of a new telling and a new story. Beautiful, powerful, durable. 

Use it for all the moments broken, and make them whole again.