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2023 52 Card Project: Week 10: Rejects
I tried to do a collage today and it wouldn't come together.
That happens sometimes.
My process: sometime around Wednesday, I start thinking, "What has this week been about? What has been at the top of my mind?" Sometimes the answer is obvious. Sometimes it isn't.
Sometimes I just don't want to do whatever the week is about.
And sometimes, I just don't have a clue.
I've really been at a low ebb this week. It's been the weather, and the physical fatigue from shoveling, and the worry about all the stuff I haven't been getting done, and the regular ongoing fucking sleep disorder.
Anyway, as I said: I started to do a collage, and it just wouldn't jell. I couldn't find the right images, and I didn't like the tone of the idea anyway. Uncharacteristically, after wrestling with it for about an hour, I deleted all the images in a fit of temper.
I thought: actually, I've had several other ideas for the collage of the week. Maybe I could do one of those other cards?
Then it occurred to me that it might be interesting, whenever I post a collage, to list all the ideas that didn't quite make the cut. Sometimes, I'll note, I get back to one of those ideas later, and turn it into a future collage, after I've mulled over the idea enough.
And THEN it occurred to me: why not make a card about all the ideas this card isn't about? Why not make a card about all the rejected ideas?
So: this is a collage about all the collages I DIDN'T make this week:
Rejects
Click here to see the 2023 52 Card Project gallery.
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Click here to see the 2021 52 Card Project gallery.
That happens sometimes.
My process: sometime around Wednesday, I start thinking, "What has this week been about? What has been at the top of my mind?" Sometimes the answer is obvious. Sometimes it isn't.
Sometimes I just don't want to do whatever the week is about.
And sometimes, I just don't have a clue.
I've really been at a low ebb this week. It's been the weather, and the physical fatigue from shoveling, and the worry about all the stuff I haven't been getting done, and the regular ongoing fucking sleep disorder.
Anyway, as I said: I started to do a collage, and it just wouldn't jell. I couldn't find the right images, and I didn't like the tone of the idea anyway. Uncharacteristically, after wrestling with it for about an hour, I deleted all the images in a fit of temper.
I thought: actually, I've had several other ideas for the collage of the week. Maybe I could do one of those other cards?
Then it occurred to me that it might be interesting, whenever I post a collage, to list all the ideas that didn't quite make the cut. Sometimes, I'll note, I get back to one of those ideas later, and turn it into a future collage, after I've mulled over the idea enough.
And THEN it occurred to me: why not make a card about all the ideas this card isn't about? Why not make a card about all the rejected ideas?
So: this is a collage about all the collages I DIDN'T make this week:
- •Golddigger (a private joke between Eric and myself)
•Plants
•Molasses
•Shame
•Depression
•Novelist
•Inflation
Click here to see the 2023 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 52 Card Project gallery.