100 Days of Imaginary First Lines [2/28/15 - 6/7/15]
When I started my first 100 Day Project in 2015, I thought of it as a writing project. But it quickly became a painting and writing project. Each day, for 100 days, I wrote the first line or lines of an unwritten story on a small piece of watercolor paper on which I had painted something. Sometimes the words came first and I chose a painting that fit, and other times the colors and shapes of the painting birthed the words.
Before starting this project, I thought I really only had my own personal stories to tell. Over the course of these hundred days, I learned that I have so many characters and stories knocking around in my brain. Not a painter, I also learned I loved to paint. Around day 22, a point of view and a playfulness started to come out visually. It was so cool to have made something, to be able to hold it in my hands and admire and share it with people right away. So different from writing, which we do by ourselves and which takes so much time. I always intended to write the stories I started on these cards. That is what's next.
