Documented Life Project (June pages)

Sixteen.
I just counted it.
I have sixteen more art journal pages to create in order to get up to date with the prompts of The Documented Life Project. But I’m on my way folks, I’m well on my way! I created two more pages with prompts that were published last June and there’s another page almost finished. I’m creating up a storm in my atelier lately. I’m in a flow and I love it.

June 20
June Theme: Travel Journaling
Art Challenge: Hometown Inspiration
Journal Prompt: There is no place like home

For the prompt ‘Hometown inspiration’ I used a photo of my grandmother Keetje (on the right) and her sister Jans, sitting next to their grandfather Jan Maljers (my great great grandfather.) I have a few photos of this photogenic guy – I guess he was a bit vain ’cause it was not very common in those days to have your picture taken. I’m glad he did though, as I love to see these ancient pics. I used photos of him on scrap booking lay outs  in earlier years (see this post and this post) but I cannot remember using this photo before. The girls are wearing the traditional costumes of Zeeland. Jans wore the costume until her death in 1984 but my grandmother changed to wearing, what they call, ‘civilian clothes’ when she got older. (I don’t know when exactly, but I have a brides-photo of her in her twenties wearing a ‘normal’ dress…)

Now that I mentioned the eighties… for the next prompt I used photos I took myself in 1985.

June 27
June Theme: Travel Journaling
Art Challenge: Photos and Words
Journal Prompt: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

 

In 1985, the artist Christo wrapped the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris.

On September 22, 1985, a group of 300 professional workers completed the temporary work of art The Pont Neuf Wrapped. They had deployed 450,000 square feet (41,800 square meters) of woven polyamide fabric, silky in appearance and golden sandstone in color, covering:

• The sides and vaults of the twelve arches, without hindering river traffic.
• The parapets down to the ground.
• The sidewalks and curbs (pedestrians walked on the fabric).
• All the street lamps on both sides of the bridge.
• The vertical part of the embankment of the western tip of the Île de la Cité.
• The Esplanade of the Vert-Galant.

I was in art school back then and of course our class HAD to see that piece of art with our own eyes… so the teachers hired a bus and our class went to Paris to see (and walk on) the Pont Neuf.

(I can hardly believe thirty years passed since then!)

Thanks for stopping by my blog today sweeties.
I’ll be back later this week with more art.
Have a great week.
Be happy.
Be creative.
Wrap a bridge 😉