Journal: Unbranded spiral sketchbook Medium(s): Acrylic paint, ink, colored pencils, some ephemera Status: Complete Notes: I'm sharing select pages since I was still transitioning from written journals to art journals. This journal documented moving to Liverpool as a grad student and accidentally falling in love with a Californian.
Themes: a perfect circle, acrylic paint, agalloch, alter ego, anatomical heart, anxiety, apocalypse, art journal, bat for lashes, bird woman, bones, carnival, collage, collide, colt, demon, doodles, drawing, duality, eddie vedder, ephemera, fiona apple, ghost brigade, goth, halloween, hand, headache, horned woman, illustration, ink, into the wild, jerry cantrell, journal, katatonia, kylesa, libra, liverpool, lyrics, melissa auf der maur, mixed media, movie, music, portrait, quote, ribs, riotgod, royal thunder, self portrait, silhouette, sketchbook, skull, squirrel, stress, the cure, torn paper collage, traditional art, veil, veins, visual journal, wet nuns, wings, writing, zodiac.
×October 2011: A mixed media art journal collage with lyrics by Royal Thunder and a drawing of Melissa Auf der Maur playing bass with thoughts about her album Out of Our Minds.
×November 2011: A mixed media art journal collage of a bloody woman in black looking out at the world from a mountain with an apocalyptic background and lyrics from Into the Black Light by the band Ghost Brigade.
×November 2011: A mixed media art journal illustration of a skull lantern at the Halloween Lantern Carnival in Liverpool and a drawing from the film Into the Wild with lyrics by Eddie Vedder.
×October 2011: A mixed media art journal illustration of a silhouette of Melissa Auf der Maur against a red background with lyrics from one of her songs.
×February 2012 and October 2011: A mixed media art journal illustration of myself with thoughts about self portraits and a messy page of a hand with the words "don't give up" on it.
×December 2011: A mixed media art journal collage with a weird butterfly lady with the words "life is too short to feel this" way.
×January 2012: A mixed media art journal collage of a woman with two heads holding her head with the words "splitting headaches."
×February 2012: A mixed media art journal collage/altered image of three women holding a scale with zodiac signs and lyrics from 3 Libras by A Perfect Circle surrounding them.
×January 2012: A mixed media art journal illustration of Fiona Apple with blue flowing hair with lyrics from her song Sullen Girl.
×April 2012: A mixed media art journal painting of an anatomical heart and cut outs of lyrics from Crushed by the band Collide.
×June 2012: A mixed media art journal collage of a gothic woman with a chest wound, holding a bloody anatomical heart with the words "protect your heart and don’t wear it on your [sleeve]."
×June 2012: A mixed media art journal illustration of my younger self with lyrics by Kylesa on my face and surrounding me and a drawing of a werird cartoon with blue hair and a butterfly brain with lyrics by Jerry Cantrell.
×July 2012: A mixed media art journal illustration of a squirrel and woman with flowing purple hair with thoughts on Sefton Park in Liverpool and a drawing of a woman with wings with lyrics from Horizon by the band RiotGod.
×July 2012: A mixed media art journal collage of a bird woman with lyrics from Burn by the band The Cure.
×July 2012: A mixed media art journal page of a horned woman with the word "demons" next to her.
×August 2012: A mixed media art journal collage of a veiled woman opening her chest to expose her rib cage and heart with veins exploding out and lyrics from Rusted by the band Katatonia.
×August 2012: A mixed media art journal collage of a woman with brown hair holding a sacred heart and a woman with blonde hair with a galaxy tattoo in front of graffiti with lyrics by Bat For Lashes.
×August 2012: A mixed media art journal collage of a woman screaming with words exploding out of her head in a galaxy color and lyrics by the band Colt/Living with Eating Disorders.
×June 2012: A mixed media art journal illustration of a horned woman (reference was from Tumblr but I have no idea who it was), a skull, a rose with hair cascading from it, and the logo of the band Wet Nuns (who I saw live that night).
×July 2012: A mixed media art journal collage of a blood bird with lyrics by Agalloch.
![A mixed media art journal collage of a gothic woman with a chest wound, holding a bloody anatomical heart with the words protect your heart and don’t wear it on your [sleeve].](liverpool/52.jpg)
