Creative Interventions – Collage Self Portrait

At work, I like to organize a fun meeting called “Creative Interventions” to keep our creativity muscles in good shape. I got the idea from an article by Gil Gershoni. They are completely voluntary and we have about 4 meetings per season. We’ve done them since Fall 2020 while working from home and covered topics such as:

• Joyful Objects
• Small is the New Big
• Virtual Gallery
• Halloween Candy Art
• Self Portrait Collage

I’ve always wanted to be better at collage so I was really looking forward to Self Portraits this week. Here’s mine!

I used my Globe & Mail newspapers from the past two months, two Broken Pencil Magazines, and a Believer issue from this Fall. I don’t want to over explain it but there are little hints throughout that speak to my pandemic experience. My hair is a photo of the Bow Valley, my body is a close-up of a petri-dish. I’ve got waffles and butter by my side. I felt drawn to feature my lungs and intestines. The two books features are ones I haven’t read yet but their covers and titles spoke to me (“Let’s Get Lost: the world’s most stunning remote locations” and “The Wisdom in Your Body“)

My colleagues encouraged me to share this one. Their work is so amazing and leave me feeling inspired. It’s been a pleasure doing these sessions and I think they are really beneficial for the new hybrid/remote workplace.