Playing with lots of creative ideas on this notebook page. I started with a falling apart copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I wanted to try writing a blackout (erasure) poem that had nothing to do with the actual content on the page.
The second thing I made was the notecard design. This is a method of meditation I learned last year at an art museum workshop (the fall of 2019 when we could go to these things.) It’s a simple concept. Choose 3 colors that express your mood. Set the timer for 3 minutes and follow where the lines take you. I use a meditation timer on my phone with some ambient sound.
I had been struggling for days to learn how to make an origami butterfly. I finally got one and added it to the page.
The final touches were some magazine cut-outs I had set aside for when I may need them. There is a creative satisfaction that happens when all the elements come together in a pleasing way.
Text of the black-out poem:
back to
Margaret Simon, from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sunday morning
grudgingly
skating on
Zoom
losing one face
in the window
just before lunch.
Reflections on the Teche 