I stared keeping a journal as a means of expressing my anger and frustration at aparticularly bad stage of my life... but got bored with that very quickly . . . . you can only be pissed off for so long, surely? Anyway I'd always loved pens, pencils and writing and I'd always wanted to draw. So the notebooks gradually evolved into ... well basically a record of my life, including cuttings, quotes, thoughts, photos and now sketches . So a few examples:
Currently doing lot of B&W
Sometimes it's what I eat
Quotes? 'Never work' Guy Debord
Work from my journals has been featured in Zuiderlucht, a Dutch arts news paper based in Maastricht, for the last two years, under the title RAM.
Earlier this year I did the first RAM exhibition in Italy where I live, and this autumn www.matchboox.com published a miniature handmade book of work from my journals.
I, honestly, feel lost without a journal to hand. You can see more excerpts from them at http://www.reallyaccessiblememory.com/
I don't call myself an artist, though I draw; I don't call myself a writer, though I write..... my Italian blog is called simply lo scarabocchiatore...the scribbler!!!
Hope this is enough to give you a taste of my journal addiction!
Cheers,
Rowland
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