Ok, so I am a self-proclaimed paper-obsessed freak. I collect papers. In our house, papers can be found in many unexpected places. Yes, bathroom is one of them, but that’s not the point.

Blank sheets of paper are a bit intimidating, but still intriguing. If the paper is shiny and smooth, you can imagine how a nice extra fine pen would glide on it, creating lines, swirls and dashes that would eventually fall into place and create a new image. Rough, uneven paper is inviting something soft, like pencil or piece of charcoal to leave a bold mark. You can play with light and shadow, enjoying the little patterns revealed by tiny pieces of graphite your trusty weapon of choice drawing companion is leaving on the surface. Fancy imprinted rice papers with patterns of flowers and intricate geometrical figures practically beg to be cut into little pieces and pasted onto a collage. Oh, the possibilities…

Of course at the end, we ignore all the fancy-pretty papers in lue of a shred of a newspaper or a dingy page ripped out of the notebook… Another mystery of life. I’ve even seen entire webpages made out of those scraps!

This one here, is a rare exception. So fly, Hairy-Legged Swirly-Eyed Birdie, fly (if you can… I’m afraid I went a little too easy on the wings here…)