Having kept my own illustrated journal of several years, in 1997 I began to define my ideas about journal keeping into a process which stresses four elements:
- Travel
- Contemplation
- Being “in the moment”
- Working alone
Several interested friends traveled with me on adventures where we each worked on our journals while I taught basic principles of design, writing, drawing, painting, collage, and bookmaking as applied to travel journals. In 2003, the Journey Daybook non-profit educational corporation was created to formally serve the growing interest in creating journey daybooks by teaching, networking with other professionals, and to using the process with people challenged by health issues.
Adventures have occurred in Florida at St Augustine, Cedar Key, Oklawaha, and Wakulla Spings; at Sapelo Island in Georgia; in Boise, Idaho; aboard ship in Alaska; and in France.
Peggy Herrick, founder
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OK…I sort of get this. SO….WOW….I just bought a little book in a funky store here in NC called Insects & Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian. So now there is a whole section here on this woman. I encourage all of you (maybe all two of us!) to look at the Getty work. It is a wonderful site. Also, at the end of my little book it notes that in 1669 an Italian biologist, Marcello Malpighi, published On the Silkworm in which he announced to the European community his discovery of the metamorphosis of silkworms into moths. But this phenomenon had already been noted in 1660 by Marya Sibylla. It was her first journal entry when she was 13 years old! You gotta love our foremothers!!!
So…is there a way to post our own sketches on this?
Thanks so much! Please bring your little book. I would love to see it.
Yes, Mary Anna, you can post your own sketches! You need to log on under Websites on the lower right. Create a password and there you are! Then, follow directions. I am still new at this, myself, but I can help you – probably better by e-mail or phone. Right now, I am posting a little piece about the springs to go up on the blog for my site, Margaretherrick.com
Bye!
I was so delighted to see Mary Anna’s interest in the Art of Maria Sibylla Merien, which just recently was a stunning show at the Getty in Los Angeles. The new Getty catalog of publications also mentions another book about the Meriens, mother and daughters.
“This gorgeously illustrated book presents the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian, who defied the conventions of her time to pursue her passion for documenting the natural world in all its glorious, and sometimes ferocious, detail.” I see the link to the work you are doing!
http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/daughters.html