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Collage: Collect a stack of at least ten magazines, which you will allow
yourself to freely dismember. Setting a twenty-minute time limit for yourself,
tear (literally) through the magazines, collecting any images that reflect your
life or interests. Think of this collage as a form of pictorial autobiography.
Include your past, present, future, and your dreams. It is okay to include
images you simply like. Keep pulling until you have a good stack of images
(at least twenty). Now take a sheet of newspaper, a stapler, or some tape or
glue, and arrange your images in a way that pleases you. (This is one of my
students’ favorite exercises.) Describe your collage below.
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move
inside the painting.
FERNANDO BOTEROBuy yourself one wonderful pair of socks, one wonderful pair of gloves
—one wonderfully comforting, self-loving something.