go find your magic 🔮 we start april 13th
FOUND MAGIC: April 13-May 4th we collage, cut up, erase and remix our stories in the Image Word Mystery Ritual Lab
📆 Live opening circle April 13th!
Join us Sunday the 13th of April to kick off our three week Ritual Lab session, FOUND MAGIC: Storytelling with collage & found poetry.
What is it?
FOUND MAGIC will set us free in our own little creative playground:
Using a variety of techniques made popular by the Surrealists (like collage, cut-up poetry, erasure, exquisite corpse & more, more, more), we will conspire with the universe to bring forth a message- for yourself, for the collective- in this three week container.
Go find your magic!
Not sure where to find source material? I’ve got you!!
Featuring a free 100+ page digital download of source material I’ve curated for you from the public domain — in addition to gobs of links and resources to find your own open-source images and written material.
Where else can you find material to work with?
•📬 JUNK MAIL! (I’m lookin’ at you, pile of unopened trash by the door)
•📰 Free newspaper weeklies/monthlies (Auto Trader, the indy news, local food guides…)
•📚 Weird books from little free libraries or your local thrift shop! (I found some Sweet Valley High & a rad book about outer space that are gonna get ✂️✂️✂️.)
•🖼️ Cannibalize your old art or pages of writing! (Y’know, the stuff that went totally sideways and you shoved in a dark corner so you weren’t reminded of your failures 🙋🏻♀️ — I’ve got a horde of scribbles stuffed in an old portfolio for just such an occasion.)
•📸 Use your own history: Print out old emails or use your own photographs from your distant or recent past. Maybe old journal pages? Old letters? (Work with a photocopy of anything you’d like to preserve!)
When do we meet?
⭐️ KICK-OFF: Sunday, April 13th, 12-2:30pm
⭐️ CLOSING CIRCLE & SHARE: Sunday, May 4th, 12-2:30pm
All on Zoom! Registration is required!
Between live gatherings, I will be in the RitLab Member Chat with y’all, sharing inspiration, offering ways to go deeper, and splashing around in the mystery with a great big smile on my face.
✄ SCISSORS or NOT TO SCISSORS???
There’s more than one way to participate!
Go analogue to cut & paste your story or pull out yer iPad. I love making digital collage with Procreate (you’ve seen my digital collage in just about every one of my newsletters!). I’ll be participating in this RitLab with a combination of digital and analogue work, so you can also follow your bliss.
Want to learn more about digital collage in Procreate?
Join me for this FREE MINI WORKSHOP: “Digital Collage In Procreate”, Wednesday April 9th, 4-5:30pm central on the Vision Train. (Follow the link for free access)
Okay, okay, one last invite:
Come give us a squeeze at our show opening tonight! These pieces are featured in Diverse By Design, 5-8pm at Mainframe Studios in Des Moines. xoxo!
I am SO pumped for this workshop! I only started working with erasure poetry a few years ago and, legit it was like discovering a type of fun I assumed had been relegated to childhood. But mostly I’m giddy to see what everyone ELSE creates!
This is gonna be magic. Not like David Copperfield or David Blaine (huh… why are famous magicians all named dave?) but like, SOUL magic, you know?