Progression of a journal page- I started by "recycling" painted pages from days passed...binding them into this book. So, the "paint" part is done as far as a "base coat" goes. Next step is collage: I didn't know where I was going with this page or what I wanted it to "say". I had a few ideas in my head and I start by playing and just grabbing images and things that "work" together (and click in my head) and gluing them down. (I used a Scotch "permanent" glue stick to stick 'em down).Next came the "warning", "Poison" labels and skull tape. Then I grabbed my gel pens and markers and went to town, making the page "say" what I wanted it to say. I turned to my Zinn book, "Voices of a People's History" and found one of my favorite speeches by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. His "Beyond Vietnam" speech...I've used this before and here it is again...still very very true 40 years later. I also added some of my own commentary...
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$35 a gallon gas in Gaza.

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This is probably one of the things that made the man snap...and now it may happen to his family??

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Global Warming is an inaccurate term...it should be called Global Disruption.

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Maybe one of these days I will get to see one of Anna Deavere Smith's performances.