Think pink baby doll pink | Collage week 10

It’s been over a month since I shared any collages and week 9: visiting the continent. But I am (kind of) back at my art table creating collages, trying again to find my groove… Today, also back at my computer scanning said collages to share them with you. Yay!

This post contains collages number 64 to 70 in my series “365 collages in 2025”.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

— Albert Camus

I did not manage to create any new collages in April. This is because there are so many things moving and changing around me that I feel lost and out of place in the world. I am sad, upset and grumpy, and this week my entire body is aching for no good reason. I’ve had a neck ache for days but today is better than yesterday, so let’s hope it does not lock in.

I did not intend on a long break from my project, but I did not have room to create in April. I have a hard time crawling back to creating when there is no order around me, and there’s nothing in place here right now. But I am here and I will keep trying. Today I scanned these pink collages that I made in the midst of my own chaos.

The title of this series could be “pink childhood” or “pink baby doll” but I settled on “Think pink, baby doll pink”, haha. My childhood was not this baby doll pink, but many [female] kids since has been enveloped in this color as babies. Swaddled in crocheted pink cotton and buried under pink tulle, dressed up as pink princesses and paraded as sweet little girls. I mean, I love pink so this is not a feminist statement but rather a investigation of how it’s been and probably is still…

Collage are little bits that come together and sometimes they ask questions as they’re presented together. These feels, to me, like they’re a distant memory or slivers of something already forgotten. Something sweet, childish, childlike, perhaps. Something innocent and for ever lost.

The first collage this week has some images from a vintage Barbie magazine, and I want to cut up more of that one soon. The rest are bits and pieces of simply: baby doll pink. I feel like I’ll dive into this subject matter a lot more later on: my childhood, remembering times past, toys I loved or colors that has followed along since I was 12 years old. I’ll grow up some day I am sure, but not today. Not today.

I like that they’re similar (in a series) but different enough to stand on their own, at least to me.

Thank you so much for clicking over, taking a look and leaving me a comment below telling me which of these collages you like best – and why you like it?

If mixed media, collage and creating small pieces of art is “your thing” don’t miss the DIY Postcard Swap that I host. In it you create 10 handmade postcards to send out internationally – and get 10 in return. It is open right now, spring 2025, so feel free to check it out and maybe sign up?

About this project: I am making one collage for each day of the year in 2025 and blogging seven at a time each week here. I have created 365 artworks in a year thrice before so I am hopeful that I can do it again. Please also check out week 10 2013 and week 10 2018 – and leave me a comment if you find a new favorites along the way. I’d love to know which of these you like best – and why you like it. Thanks for helping me finish this by cheering me on. I appreciate you being here.
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365 collages in 2025 | previously week 9 | this is week 10 | next up week 11

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