Smudge Postcards set of 11 SMUDGE volumes 1 - 6 non-dominant hand journals 2021-2023 I started a new journal that I call Smudge. In it, I use my left, non-dominant, hand. It is a journal where drawings dominate the pages and words accompany them. It was meant to last for 100 days, but then, I generally don’t mind a Thing’s End – for then another begins. This is not the case with my left-handed project. I must find a way to continue. I feel no drudgery here on day 88. In the end, I made six volumes containing nearly six-hundred drawings over the course of two years. The left hand is connected to the same body as my right, but I am hard on this familiar creature. The left hand requires a kind of nurturing and patience that I do not give most things. I am delighted and uncritical of the pages, as if they are each a gift to me, from this Other who is also my self.
