An annual April experiment in creating a Fake Journal~ FAKE: pretend, simulate; counterfeit; to alter.manipulate.
or treat as to impart a false character or appearance.

A fun exercise in pretending to be someone else, maybe in an alternate universe!
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Dig Through Nostalgia



Fake Journal 2015~
the last few pages







Collage: assorted text and papers,
vintage illustration from an elementary
school health textbook, stamping,
my drawing of a woman having tea.








Vintage illustrations and diagrams,
a doodle, scrapbook paper, and
an 'ephemera pack' telephone.







Scribbles on graph paper, drawing
and watercolor of waves, vintage
health textbook illustration, vintage
advertisement from Life magazine (1956)




Detail showing hand-carved stamp
image on white tissue paper, allowing
the scrapbook paper behind it to
show through.





NOTE: 'Catch' the Wrap Up of the
2015 Fake Journal in the next few days...
Process, Goals, Learned Lessons~
CONSIDERED TRUTHS.



Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Monday, March 10, 2014

Meditations of a Shaman












The end of April, and the end of my 
Fake Journal for 2013...did it
become clear that the character writing
the fake journal was a shaman?

Next week I'll show the cover and discuss
my goals for this project. If you want to
see more Fake Journals, go to the



Stones ~ Fake Journal 2013









Stones have been a canvas on which
artists of the past carved images...


Were they sacred?
Did the images give men 
power over the being portrayed?




The beginnings of my medicine bag...
I will keep my eyes open
and search for other
objects which will speak to me.