Yay for public projects, revealing secrets, hearts pouring over, and letting everyone expose their inner-artist! 1000 Journals is a kind of Public Art Project reminiscent of the ever-popular Postsecret (in the anonymous-traveling-art sense). Here’s what happened: a(n obviously creative) man let 100 empty journals loose on bars, cafes, friends, and family. They were sent out in the world to be filled with words and art for whoever found them — instructions called for the journal to be passed on and then returned to the man who started them.
He wanted to spread the idea that anyone and everyone is an artist of some sort, and it shouldn’t be for the select few of cultivated talent to have all the self-expression rights. There are still many journals out there circling the world (he’s only got back ONE so far!) and the covers and pages from that book are scanned in on his web-page. (He let loose 900 more a little more formally to get up to 1000 Journals.)
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