{"id":1539,"date":"2011-04-12T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2013-02-03T14:55:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T13:55:46","slug":"something-old-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/something-old-something-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Something old, something new"},"content":{"rendered":"

In November last year, Seth from The Altered Page<\/a> called all artists
\nto submit work for a book he was working on. Seth hosted many
\n‘collaboration project’ during the last years, and I took part in some.<\/p>\n

Although I was very busy the last months of 2010, I managed to answer
\nhis ‘questions list’ for the book and submit a piece. Last week, I received
\nan e-mail that one-or-more (?) of my answers from the list will end up
\nin the book, but my art piece didn’t make it.<\/p>\n

I’m kinda relieved about that too… I almost emailed him last month to ask him
\nNOT to choose my piece. When I look back at it now, I don’t find it very good.
\nIt’s OK, but not GOOD. Somehow, my soul isn’t in it.
\nI’m glad Seth noticed that himself (although he’s too kind to say that!)
\nBesides being a great artist, I think he’s a good viewer\/critic!<\/p>\n

But the page isn’t bad either, so today I want to show it here on my blog.
\nI’d like to hear what you think of it.<\/p>\n

Innermost<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Used materials:
\nPaper (170 gram), Gesso (to prepare the paper), Acrylic paints, Sewing machine\/red thread, Black markers (‘Stabilo” small and fine)<\/p>\n

And this is the text, that’s written on the page:<\/p>\n

The famous Dutch writer Harry Mulisch once stated that all people have
\nan ‘absolute age’. According to him, that is the age you’ve always been
\nand always shall be no matter how old you are. My inner age is nineteen. <\/em><\/p>\n

The way I look at the world, deal with emotions and feel about myself
\nnever really changed since then. I have a habit to put everything literally
\ninto words. I am sort of an outsider, viewing my own life from a distance
\nand writing my own, private book about it. That doesn’t necessarily mean<\/em>
\nI write it down on paper – sometimes the story stays in my head.
\nMy head is full of words. <\/em>I became aware of this when I was nineteen
\nand I discovered that only a few people have this literary inner life.
\n(Those people mostly become writers, by the way). <\/em><\/p>\n

Why do I put everything into words, what’s the purpose of it all?
\nI thought a lot about it and came to this conclusion: it enables me
\nto analyze and understand myself in an almost scientific way.
\nIt allows me to ‘re-read’ my own life. I look at my actions and emotions
\nfrom different angles and by doing that, I can learn from myself.
\nBy turning my words into art journals, I also leave a legacy for the ones
\nthat come after me. The Marit chronicles: written by a woman who stayed
\nnineteen all her life.<\/em><\/p>\n

And here’s a detail photo of the stitching<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It really is a coincidence that last weeks page in my Chronicles shows
\na face and is made in exactly the same colours as the former page.
\nI do like my ‘week 14 page’ a lot better than the above page though.<\/p>\n

The Chronicles of Marit – week 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What do you think?
\nWhich page do you prefer?<\/p>\n

I have a few days work left to finish this week, but by Friday I will have more
\nbreathing space. I’m looking forward to it already! I also can’t wait to visit my
\nfriend Lena and see her face when she sees what kind of surprise I have for her
\n50th birthday. It’s got to stay a secret for now (after all – she reads this, aren’t
\nyou dear? \ud83d\ude09 ) but I can tell you already – Lena is going to love what I have in
\nstore for her and it’s hard to keep my mouth shut!
\nI will tell you all about it after her birthday, I promise!<\/p>\n

OH, and a NOTE:
\nNext week, the registration for ‘Summer Camp’ opens!
\nIf you subscribe to the newsletter on the website here<\/a>, you’ll get notified.
\nChoose either English or Dutch by changing the language button on the site.<\/p>\n

Enjoy your week my lovelies!
\nSee you on Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In November last year, Seth from The Altered Page called all artists to submit work for a book he was working on. Seth hosted many ‘collaboration project’ during the last years, and I took part in some. Although I was very busy the last months of 2010, I managed to answer his ‘questions list’ for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,17,75],"tags":[1138,102,145,143,147,146,149,148,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-1539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-art-journals","8":"category-chronicles-2011","9":"category-layouts","10":"tag-art-journaling","11":"tag-creative-summer-camp","12":"tag-face","13":"tag-innermost","14":"tag-seth","15":"tag-stitching","16":"tag-summer-camp","17":"tag-the-altered-page","18":"tag-week-14","19":"entry","20":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}