Growing up, if I knew that creating vision boards or fun cards with my friends’ faces as the sun would lead to collaging as part of my creative practice, I’m not too sure that I would have believed it. For me, collaging is such a fun and accessible way to engage with my creative self that doesn’t involve many materials or require much space. Using materials destined for landfill or materials that are special to me that I’d like to celebrate creates a fun platform to begin playing and creating with.
This weekend we ran our first collaging workshop as The Village. Inspired by nature, and set under the big glorious tuart tree of the Community Garden, creating little constructions that made us smile, reflect and process, was a wonderful way to spend a Saturday morning. Creating alongside a produce swap and herb information sharing filled my heart with joy. Moments like these are what we had envisioned when creating the concept for The Village and I am beyond grateful that this is my current reality.
The things I love about collaging include:
- It’s accessible and a great way to connect to creativity
- It’s a sustainable activity, celebrating and honouring materials that are no longer being used
- The ‘scraps’ can be turned into homemade paper
- It lets the imagination run wild and then create wild things
- It is something that can be done anywhere - It’s a great activity to do while catching up with friends over a warm drink or with little ones
A fun and easy way I like to begin collaging is by flipping through an old magazine and cutting out a couple of things that bring me joy, I find interesting or make me giggle and then use that as a diving board to jump in. I like to create scenes that wouldn’t normally go together in our vision of reality such as a chandelier as the sun or a whale in a blow up pool. But the magic of collaging is that there are no rules!
With gratitude,
A xx
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