L*VEJournal

[vaneramos]

Ever since committing to participate in dencoartist's Net.Works show, I've been looking for ways to visually portray my LiveJournal experience. For example, I tried incorporating friends' icons into a collage. That exploration demanded time and resources I lack now, but hope to tackle later.

For today, I decided to incorporate phrases from the journals of people close to me, superimposed over one of the colourful flourishes that represents life, love and creativity. I read friends' recent or remembered posts and pulled out excerpts, but when I had them all together on the page, realized each could be taken as a reference to love, at least metaphorically.

The title of the drawing, L*VEJournal, pokes fun at my own sentimentality and resistance to sentimentality. I inserted the asterisk the same way it might substitute for the O in god. The O is too much to say. It's one of those hot words that spoils a poem, and yet so much poetry revolves around it.

This community is built largely from words, and the textures we weave reflecting off one another's ideas. I am a poet, and glad one of these drawings incorporates writing.

Including attributions in the drawing would have detracted from it, but I'll give them here, from top to bottom: dakoopst, missprune, vaneramos, ubermunkey, ghostsandrobots, djjo, bitterlawngnome, and trapezebear. I've received permission from almost everyone. ;-)

Want to see it in higher resolution?

Yes, I hope to explore this further. But my time alone, for this season, ends tonight. When I'm home with the girls in two weeks, my priority will be to get these three drawings framed and ready to send.