http://wjcsdigitalworld.blogspot.com/2012/10/fantastic-image-transfer-video.html
But I don’t have a brayer so I used a rolling pin! It worked fine!)
I was recently looking into a way to give my 235+ journals a good home when I die. The thought of them just being tossed in the trash really bugs me. I found this guy online with a diary library. I contacted him and sent a slide show of some of my journal pages, but I got no response. I delved deeper and wrote to one of the links on his website. The woman I contacted wrote back to say he was in a nursing home. She shared the address with me, and I sent him a card. A couple of weeks later I got a letter from Ray! I couldn’t believe it! The writing was pretty difficult to decipher, but I am a caregiver for an older guy who said “I know how to read stuff written by people with arthritis.” So he broke the code and read the letter for me. Ray’s nursing home is just 4 hours away and he invited me to come down to visit and look through the journals he has, many from famous people. I wrote back to say I’d love to come. The a few days after I sent the letter I got word from his daughter that Ray is in the last days of his life… I can’t believe it. Although I am very grateful for our friendship, however brief, there is a part of me that is angry because I am so sick of death making an appearance in my life. I was so looking forward to meeting him, and now I never will. Not only was I already seeing him as a mentor, but on some level also a father-figure. My father never really appreciated my creative side. He meant well, but he was a scientist and there didn’t seem to be any room in his reality for an artistic point of view. Even though Ray isn’t gone yet, I am already going through the stages of grief. I created this journal page to help me process. I used a technique shared by a friend of Bill’s in this post:
http://wjcsdigitalworld.blogspot.com/2012/10/fantastic-image-transfer-video.html But I don’t have a brayer so I used a rolling pin! It worked fine!)
3 Comments
10/28/2012 09:33:58 am
Well that's really a shame. He sounds like a kindred soul. At least you gave him a very bright spot during his final days. He'll fall asleep with wonderful thoughts of his new friend Marguerite.
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10/28/2012 09:43:12 am
I forgot to say I loved watching the video of your art journals! Creating that many journals is such an incredible accomplishment.
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Sandy
11/14/2012 12:29:30 am
He had journals from famous people? Sounds very intriquing and he sounds like he was a fascinating man. I'm glad he had what sounds like a beautiful, loving and peaceful passing.
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