Creative Saturday

Have had a quite different day  today. I have been on a Printing and Artists' Books Workshop with Theresa Easton   at Ouseburn and it was FABULOUS.
See a collage of my creations below.

Have had a lot of ideas as to how Artists' Books could be used to incorporate life story in health care and  conversation ramps (http://www.speakability.org.uk/)  for people with dementia and aphasia.

They are also things of beauty in their own right, even when I have made them!!  An inspiring day and a poem just popped out...

Word Count

After every sentence
she checks the number
of words written on the page.

When she gets to
over a thousand
she might be allowed
to stop - for a while.

Trouble is
she seems only
able to write
short lines
that
break

e
 a
  s
    i
     l
       y....