Some more soulcollaging cards

[pegkerr]

Here are some older cards:


The Sybaritic Bather - Committee
I am the One who immerses herself in water for self-renewal. I luxuriate in scent, softness and cleanliness, and I emerge refreshed and ready, scattering drops as I walk. Water is my element, with flowers floating on the surface.

This card honors my long-time practice of taking baths whenever I need to get away from it all. I take a lot of baths, especially when I'm trying to keep depression at bay.


The Romantic - Committee
I am the One who enjoys my partnership with the Beloved Other. I reach out to join hands, to share a moment, to kiss and touch. I honor the rituals and symbols of the lover.

This card is distinct from The Lover card, which I haven't made yet. This is all about valentines and silly rituals, the frilliness and femininity of being a woman in love. The Lover card, I think, will be more primal, more about the sexuality.


The Active Woman - Committee
I am the One who is powerful, who revels in my own body. I constantly strive to improve my stamina, flexibility, speed, and strength. I fight a rearguard action against age. I am movement and balance and grace and proportion. I sweat and grunt and strain and reach and keep going. I enjoy the fun of exercise and I am proud of how I work to shape and honor my body.

I started working out in my early thirties, when my metabolism started changing and I couldn't eat whatever I wanted anymore without adding extra weight. It took me a few years to really get in the habit of being active. Now, especially since I've started karate, I consider myself an athlete, and (despite occasional frustrations) I'm really proud of how my body and how much better I look than many women my age. I feel that my healthy habits will help a lot as I age. Exercise has also added a lot to my life that is fun.

I do plan to make a separate card for karate.

These cards were the first three that I made, and what strikes me the most looking at them now is how really simple they are. It's interesting to contrast them with a later, more complex card like this one, which layers the elements more elaborately. The Active Woman card in particular looks really simple to me: just cut out squares of little images and line them up edge to edge like tiles. If I were doing this card now, I would definitely intertwine the figures more.

Comments

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I notice these are all in the Committee suit, but the activities all strike me as either private or intimate. What is the idea behind the Committee suit again?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

The Committee is all the voices/people inside yourself, as if they were all sitting together at a conference table: the wife, the mother, student, the inner child, etc. They are all basically just different aspects of myself.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Oh, that makes sense. Mine isn't nearly as orderly as a committee so I'd probably call it something different. The SFCon?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

*snicker* That would be appropriate!

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Yes; my inner voices include all sorts. Some would sit at a conference table and work as a team, but others would be off filking, making art, gaming, navel-gazing or partying. There are cliques and factions, and a loyal opposition to the committee in charge - a lot like your average f/sf convention.

[petal-pusher.livejournal.com]

Hi

They are lovely. Is there a reason why you use pictures of young women and not of women your age?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Well, partly because those were the images I found when I tore up an issue of Shape magazine. But exercise makes me feel younger, too.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

How odd. I like looking at your cards because they're pretty, the images are powerful, and the ideas are interesting, but soulcollaging is not an activity that's evey particulalry called to me. But your Active Woman card, simple as it is, brought me to the edge of tears.

(I'm a little weepy today anyway, though.)