Three new entries

First, my calendar. I thought about things I took away from my class experience as well as what was happening in my life and, of course, with my pregnancy.












Next, I pursued last week's proposal a bit more. Part of that proposal was to dig deeper into my feelings about the pregnancy and my changing life. To that this week, I read Birthing From Within, which I finally got my hands on this month. That book prompted me to consider the fears that I have about the experience of giving birth in a hospital, so I created an entry documenting those fears, using acrylic paint and Photoshop. I hope that I can begin to address the fears in the coming months by calling them out (and talking to the doctors and my husband and etc). I did redact a couple of them because they were a little too personal to share here.









After my "fears" entry I needed to do something lighter. I switched to watercolor, graphite, and ink, and did a few cute little things that reflect some of the maternal and domestic feelings that seem to just keep getting more intense as the months go by.

Pits!

Landscape and narrative seemed like fitting elements for a two-page spread dealing with visual flow. Since I did most of my writing for this week's entries under an oak tree at Lake of Isles, I went ahead and sketched a little version of that scene, taking some text from the writing I did. Sketchy graphite, ink, and marker.

Feet

With this entry I kind of lost the thread of what I was doing aesthetically and stylistically, but it's part of the "raw sketch" series of entries intended to help me continue to loosen up with my visual journal. It turned out kind of dumb and I probably didn't put enough thought into it. But the text and subject matter came from the writing element of my process this week.

Two free entries

These spreads are the first two entries I've created in pursuing what I laid out in my proposal, inspired by some of the work in this week's readings. Observational sketches of my crazy environment during this crazy time of packing, house-buying, and pregnancy!

Anagrams

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After our perplexing experience registering for baby things last week, my husband and I sat around creating anagrams out of the names of items on the stores "must-have" baby stuff list, because we're cool like that. The list of Stuff You Must Buy Or Your Baby Will Be Totally Deprived, by the way, is a real load of crap. I remember my little brother sleeping in a dresser drawer when we visited family, so I'm pretty sure we don't need three different "sleep systems" for our baby!

Anyway, this is my "interactivity" entry because it was a collaboration. If anything, my brilliant husband did most of the work, because I only came up with like two anagrams and he thought of about a billion. My favorite is the one at the top, because I'm fairly certain we will indeed need to learn to speak Blork in order to communicate with our baby girl.