Step #414: Ephemera
Fri, March 19, 2010 at 06:54PM "Success, which is something
so simple in the end,
is made up of thousands of things,
we never fully know what."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
a tag from the car repair shop
a ticket stub with an ad on the reverse, and a map underneath it all
typed lists
Ephemera is a word that art journalists use to describe the "stuff" they put in their art journals. Stuff that's technically not an art material per se. i.e., receipts, handwritten notes, photographs, fabric, beads, hand painted paper, thread, magazine/catalog images, pages from old books, maps, sheet music, newspaper, product packaging, ticket stubs. You get the idea.
I wish I could find an inexpensive source for *real* vintage stuff like postcards + photographs. Wikipedia has a great collection of Public Domain image links. What is your ephemera-of-the-moment? What do you find yourself reaching for? I clearly have a map addiction, and I love ticket stubs.
Find more in the step-by-step art journaling series.
Reader Comments (1)
I love finding ephemera on ebay. they have whole categories dedicated to postcards, antique photos, etc. :D
old book pages are a favorite of mine. i have a dictionary with a broken spine that's mostly falling apart with beautiful yellowing pages i like to use in my collages.