This is the fifth (or sixth?) in the Divorce series. click here to see more info about the series.
This particular one I took the cover of the book Fashion (mostly used to do the Dresses series).
I redid the cover (the word fashion and the word divorce have the same number of letters, who knew?) and the spine using bits of the leftovers from the big red and yellow portrait of James.
I bound it, and this time the rough binding isn’t just because that’s my style (i just cannot make it tight enough, really, and I don’t care enough to want to practice). For the purposes of this being a little undone is actually a metaphor.
The video outlines a lot of the details, like the cicatrices/scars on the page joins, the addition of weird little bits, ribbons, bows. etc.
The poem is one I have not dared use yet, but it seemed appropriate for this work: I Don’t Miss It, by Tracy K. Smith.
I planned to use a paintbrush to do the writing, but ended up with a sharpie, and even then I had to go over some of the writing because the background was so varied in colour. Again, not inappropriate for the subject matter.
This work was really begun properly in September when I was at Pearl Beach and completed mid october 2025, I’m just behind in my admin of these posts. it was a difficult series to bring to culmination, and i am not sure it contained any healing as such – time is the healer, and it’s been a long haul.
