a diary of words, paper and other ephemeral things

Tag: notebooks

  • Art I made lately

  • An essay on enoughness

    Read the essay on my substack

    I have found myself gravitating to Substack more, specifically concerning my writing. I wanted to share the link to todays’ essay on my art practice. I hope that you all can join me there. It’s free, although there is a paid option that gets you digital versions of all of my zines. I will probably still share art photos here.

  • Journal pages

  • Animal: A poem

    If you enjoy this poem, you can follow for more on Instagram at starmothwrites
  • Junk journal pages

    Time in this little junk journal
    “Slow progress is still progress”
  • Recent journal spreads

    A map of my wild artist heart, a response to mission #3 from my zine Iridescent Explorations
    An inner child journal spread
  • Fire energy grimoire pages

    Perhaps not what you would expect for your fire energy energy, but I’m a slow burn.

  • enough

    Contemplating the essay for this week: why do we tell ourselves our art isn’t enough? why do we shame ourselves for creating something that is valuable to ourselves but perhaps no one else? How can we transmute that feeling and show up anyways?

  • Suddenly I’m writing poetry everyday

    And it’s been years since I’ve been able to do that. Going to keep sharing because if my other creative practices have taught me anything, it’s that I enjoy sharing my creations. It makes me feel like a kid again.

    A winter spell
    Speaking of feeling like a kid again…