Seeing your collages all together on Flickr made me think that I should put all the things I've made that I don't particularly like together in a picture quilt and hang it on my wall. My perspective on the works would be so much different, and I would probably notice some good things that I hadn't seen before putting them in a new context.

Maira Kalman is my most favorite artist in world - half of her apppeal to me is her work and half is her self. I love her and the way she sees the world.
After many years of loving her through her work I screwed up my courage and emailed her last year -- and she answered me. It was like making eye contact with someone wonderful. I am not being clear here about it but must, in my inadequate way just say, she is extraordinary.
Thank you for the link -- I had heard this story before and couldn't find it again.How nice to hear her voice.

Your journals are breathtaking, I am a great fan of collage and am enjoying yours very much.

I'm a quilter and love juxtaposition--the energy of textures, colors, and ideas playing off one another.

I've enjoyed seeing the journal pages one by one (and I seem to be accumulating piles of ephemera around here, wanting to try some collages of my own)but the sight of all those journal pages all together is just a shot of pure energy.

Thanks for sharing.

I can definitely see an evolution in the pages of the journal, laid out next to each other. It seems like you are getting deeper and darker in your work as you go along. Thanks for posting the flickr link- wonderful to see all the pages together. Very cool...

Keri,
Is there anyway you would be willing to write a post or portion of it on where and how you become inspired? One thing that consistently amazes me about your journal is how you have so much to say and share. You're in the middle of a tiny place surrounded by snow and yet you put out one amazing entry after the next ! HOW does that happen? My mind feels like a tundra plain these days, barren. Not depressed, just totally EMPTY. And its been this way for so, so long. Would you be willing to address this in an entry? I'm really hurting here. (I don't want to put my real e-mail only because I have been bombarded with junk e-mail.) Thank you ...

I love viewing your journal collages on flickr as a slideshow... but also- very cool to see them all together. like one big patchwork.

If you have to write "trust" on that drawing, you are saying you are not confident the drawing could express that on it's own account. Are you illustrating a theraputic process or do you want to make an unequivocal drawing?