The Journey Daybook, Inc.

On Saturday, our Journal Keepers group makes a stop at the Nature Center State Park on the Rio Grande bosque. The highlight of this excursion is seeing the blind designed to observe indigenous plants and animals in their environment. Margy O’Brien created tiles, some of which were made from journals pages in collaboration with Bonnie Schmader, an Albuquerque naturalist, for this useful practical monument,  The structure is very accessible, located on the corner of the parking lot where everyone has an opportunity to not only read the journal entries but also to watch the animals that include a host of different ducks, geese, migratory birds, and turtles without intruding on their natural activity. This group of photos of the blind show the site, Margy’s work, and the recontextualization of the journal pages – here in a very different art form – ceramic sculpture. Bravo, Margy! You have made a wonderful piece of public art from a your personal journal pages and in so doing you have changed our thinking about the untold ways that our journey daybooks can be reused.

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