Hello dear souls,
It’s lovely to have you here.
I’m Milly, a community-taught bookmaker and mixed-media artist. I work out of my cosy atelier in Freiburg, a beautiful old city nestled into the Black Forest, Germany. It’s here I found the space to breathe and lay down the roots of my bookmaking venture, my ode to paper.
In my own artistic practice, using a sketchbook to record what I experience has taught me so many valuable lessons about observation, non-judgment, acceptance and embracing the current state of things.
Ode to Paper is about giving the space to oneself within which we engage with our sense of being.
We meet ourselves in our journal pages, in our daily musings and meditations, in our scribbled notes and sketched ideas, in our collaged photos that re-imagine the story of another day. These are the silent spaces that hold our creative voices.
It is scary to shout into the dark and not know what will answer back from the depths. This feeling is often felt by those of us who sit staring at a blank page of an open book, not knowing where or how to begin.
These books are intended as safe spaces for self-exploration. Let each blank page spark a curiosity and an intent to experience a little more of this world. And let our marks – however they may come – remind us to keep our practices grounded and forever awakening.
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