For the Exhibition of Carpe Diem I chose to bind a prospective journal - a blank book to capture events as they unfold. I liked the idea of the juxtaposition of seizing and recording the now against the fact that we are all travellers in time. Today’s now is tomorrow’s yesterday. The physical form of the journal reflects the future into which the traveller must journey. The blank pages remind us that the future has yet to be seized and recorded. When one fans the leaves of the paper or turns a page it is a movement analogous to the passage of time. The cream pages with nothing on them invite the traveller to write prose or poetry or simply record moments which have been gripped, days which have been seized. A journal can symbolize the layers of life and the effects of time.
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