New Years Projects

Even talk of New Year's resolutions leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Nothing like failing to set you back...

But I do like the idea of New Year's projects: actually stating something that can be done in incremental steps. I've signed up to some art mailing lists, trying to keep up with new interests I developed while in NY, and loved this idea that I found in Lean's Imaginarium, an altered-book blog:

PROJECT: Fifty-Two

Weekly journaling and altered pages with a purpose to come every Sunday.

This project is to devote time to create one section of this book each week. The first couple prompts are constructing the book itself.

There are no rules. Just a little me time to focus on centering myself through my work on a weekly basis.

I like the idea of a developing project that keeps going throughout the year. It seems like the closest visual equivalent to Cameron's morning pages--free, associative, without any pressures of producing a finished product, a visual journal that is more cohesive than a sketchbook. And it's a way to expand my interest in book-art. Now just to define the weekly topic...

Anyone interested in joining?