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Art Journaling in a Concertina Sketchbook
This is a sketchbook I created at an Art Residency at the Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association
A sketchbook I created during my art Residency with the Carbon County Arts Guild and the Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association at a geology research camp just South of Red Lodge Montana.
My goal for this Residency was not to paint and draw conventional landscapes but rather focus on showing nature as it is not as often seen. Both in its detail, and then in its intersection with our society.
You can see the sketchbook detail below.
A Sojourn
A Sojourn
Notes: I made the journal using mixed media paper. The content is collage materials, Acrylic Inks, POSCA Markers, Acrylic Paints, Micron Pens and a few things more.
The texture that is added (sanded) on many of the collage items sanded in using a flat stone from the area, so that the texture of the journal matches (at least a little) of the texture of the natural landscape.
A Sojourn
What is in about this place
That demands such intention
A multitude of greens painted
Up gently sloping hillsides
Ochres, Umbers, Veridians
All changing hue
As the day awakens
Or the sky darkens with dusk
I lace my boots on concrete steps
Left foot first
Then right
To move into the day
Purpose found in each moment, in each step
A subtle intersection of man and nature
Still not quite Eden
Marked with invention
Power lines sag through pristine valleys
Water diverted from a mountain stream
Flows to camp in PVC pipe
Houses mark the mountainside
Connected by arteries scratched in dry earth
Yet here I’ve
Slowed
My steps not measured by distance, start to destination
But for discovery in wandering
My time servant only to that which finds purchase
In this meandering
I see what is here, what is in this moment
And that seems adequate
Should I accomplish nothing more
It would be enough
To carry back from this Sojourn
A little bit of the me
That here I found
8/30/2025
John Kennedy