Collage – an intuitive process.
by Guna Green, Buoyancy Foundation
Making “Soul Cards”
To create your own personal deck of cards that reflect the many facets of your inner life, you will need;
A pile of magazines that you don’t mind cutting up.
A pair of sharp scissors.
Glue, or Glue stick.
Cardboard for backing
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- This is an intuitive process, spend time looking through the magazines and cut out anything that attracts your attention.
- It can be images, shapes colours, textures…..
- You will collect a pile of cut – out images that have no particular relationship until you sort through them and start to play around with combinations.
- Allow yourself to play around with different arrangements until something clicks. A theme will emerge and there will be a point where a concrete idea forms.
- You may have to spend a long time with the images until it becomes clear what their meaning is.
- Sometimes the meaning is just a feeling and you can’t always put it into words.
- Just enjoy the process.
- Once you feel happy with the image, glue it down onto the cardboard.
- If you want to make a “deck of cards”, cut your cardboards all the same size, and make your images to that format.
Some suggestions for the different aspects of one’s inner drama;
The angry beast, the performer, the lover, the hurt child, the greedy one, the critic, the trickster, the healer , the warrior, the King/ the Queen, mother/ father , angel/ devil………..
Other concepts such as; Transformation, Eternity, Asylum, Peace, Centre, Sorrow, Joy , Nourishment, Fertility, Friendship, courage, fear,…….. whatever you want to express.
Make up your own themes that have meaning for you.
