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The Great Diary Project has been set up to provide a permanent home for unwanted diaries of any date or kind. The collection now contains over 2000 diaries, and is adding to this resource as extensively as possible. Once part of the collection, all diaries are housed according to up-to-date conservation standards. All diaries will be catalogued for the Project database, the contents of which will be made freely available to researchers and interested readers, who can consult the originals in Bishopsgate Institute reading room in London. Both Stephen Fry and Boris Johnson are patrons of the ever-expanding project, and anyone who has old or unwanted diaries can be sure that the Institute will take them in gratefully and look after them.

Diaries are among our most precious items of heritage. People in all walks of life have confided and often still confide their thoughts and experiences to the written page, and the result is a unique record of what happens to an individual over months, or even years, as seen through their eyes. No other kind of document offers such a wealth of information about daily life and the ups and downs of human existence. The Project’s idea is to collect as many diaries as possible from now on for long-term preservation. In the future they will be a precious indication of what life, in our own time, was really like.

justintheamazingallan:

Confessions, public art project, The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada by Candy Chang.

For one month, Chang lived in Vegas. Visitors could stop by, enter a booth, write whatever thoughts they wanted to share, and drop the confession into a box that mixed anonymously with other slips. Chang then took the anonymous slips and displayed them on the walls, painting selected responses in white against a larger red canvas background. According to Chang’s website, “This project seeks to create a cathartic sanctuary for this temporary community and help us see we are not alone in our quirks, experiences and struggles as we try to lead fulfilling lives.”

Woah, there is no such thing as too much cheese. 

(Source: yoannmichaux, via justintheallan)

visual-poetry:

“wall of wishes” by gordon young

http://gordonyoung.net/bristol_wallofwishes.html

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(via books-on-the-floor)

So for my current confessional book art project some of you folks have very kindly submitted into (and which I’m currently still accepting submissions for!), I’ve been thinking of typewriting out some hand-picked confessions, placing these strips of paper within melted wax and fashioning them into candles to burn (paper within wax- possible fire hazard, but shh!) A lot of my recent work explores the theme of catharsis, and since so many of you submitted in regrets, I like the idea of literally setting alight these negative thoughts and experiences and starting fresh. Plus, I think messages and illustrations concealed within wax looks pretty!

However, I have as little knowledge of candle-making and as I do Amish friends to call upon for help, so any words of advice/tips are highly appreciated! 

As always, thank you my dear followers for helping an art student out x

Appropriate as I’m working on my own little book of secrets currently (more submissions highly appreciated if you have the time!) x

(via white-vanilla)

I’m collecting confessions for a little book art project I’m working on for university at the moment, and I’d like to know from all you saints and sinners out there what is the best or worst thing you feel you’ve ever done?

From accidently running over your neighbor’s dog to simply helping an old lady cross a street, nothing is too grand or too trivial (sometimes it’s the smallest and most unexpected things that eat us up inside, or make our hearts soar with pride.) 

The  darkest, kindest, funniest or just plain weirdest confessions have the best shot of making it into the book- all submissions hugely appreciated (no scary murder confessions please!)

Submit you confessions here! (You can choose to be totally anonymous if you wish!) 

If you would like to submit a confession containing any images/hand-written note/drawings etc, email me at: xsweetvisagex@gmail.com!

Thank you! x

(Source: fuckyeahbookarts)