A Year of Ground-Scrap Collecting
Finding Beauty In What’s Left Behind
In 2018, I gave myself a year’s worth of daily assignments with the aim of filling a journal. The assignment theme changed every month and by the end of the year, I was very surprised by which months ended up being my favorites (ghost collages in October) and which were more frustrating than I expected (daily photos in July). For January 2018, my daily assignment was to collect a piece of trash or something eye-catching off the ground – as long as it was small and flat enough to be taped to the journal pages. That month ended up being one of my favorites.
SO. At the start of 2019, I decided that the daily assignment theme wasn’t going to change every month. In 2019, I would be doing January 2018’s theme of collecting scraps of trash all year long. The journal pages are sectioned off so that there are four days/items per spread. I scanned my collection one spread at a time.
Check out each month separately or see what a whole year looks like below. š
![Jan 1-2](http://wowyayok.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-1-2-2-1024x819.jpg)
![Jan 3-6](http://wowyayok.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-3-6-1024x819.jpg)
![Jan 7-10](http://wowyayok.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-7-10-1024x819.jpg)
![Jan 11-14](http://wowyayok.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-11-14-1024x819.jpg)
![Jan 15-18](http://wowyayok.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-15-18-1024x819.jpg)
![Jan 19-22](http://wowyayok.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-19-22-1024x819.jpg)
![Jan 23-26](http://wowyayok.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-23-26-1024x819.jpg)
![Jan 27-30](http://wowyayok.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-27-30-1024x819.jpg)
![Jan 31 - Feb 3](http://wowyayok.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jan-31-Feb-3-1024x819.jpg)
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