The other day, I was perusing the Flickr stream of my dear-friend-from-another-life Cyrina, when I found this:
flickr.com/hitthejagspot
It’s part of a set called “Wreck This Journal.”
flickr.com/hitthejagspot
A bit of research led me to hundreds of other photos of “wrecked” journals, and eventually to wreckthisjournal.com. It’s a movement!
Actually, it’s a book by the very clever Keri Smith. A self-described guerilla artist, Smith created Wreck This Journal to encourage creativity in the uninspired masses. For girls like me who tend to be leery of journals because we might make a mistake, this is pretty groundbreaking. Wreck This Journal is full of prompts that invite (nay, instruct) its owner to “muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).”
Out there somewhere, hundreds of girls are making beautiful messes and proudly photographing them. I’m so happy to have discovered it.
Wreck This Journal
By the bye, Cyrina (who, when I met her, was just learning about photography) is very talented and beautiful too. You should go enjoy her work on Flickr.
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beautiful.
You don’t even know how afraid I am to “ruin” a journal. This is great.
I wreck all my journals by not writing dates and just opening to random pages when I feel like writing or drawing. I feel that this makes me less afraid to express myself when my thoughts are hectic and I want to just get them out of my head and onto paper. Sometimes if I want to continue with a thread later I just dog ear and draw a little picture so I can find it easily.
What a great discovery! I’ve have beautiful journals that I keep stored away because I’m always waiting for an idea to write something as gorgeous as I feel the notebook deserves (which, oddly enough, doesn’t seem to happen that way….) This has encouraged me to go and “wreck” them, and express myself how I am now, not what I may be in the future :)
i love it, it’s soo much fun