Art journal week Friends

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As you have guessed the prompt for week 6 on the ukstampers weekly challenge is Friends.
Your page has to include:

  • Who, when, where
  • what is your most memorable friends story
  • use some kind of stencilling

The story behind the page.
I met Mairi while working at Debenhams restaurant and on the night of 10/03/85 we went out to a night club.  This night is memorable for the fact that I lost my memory due to a head injury!
We didn’t have much money – enough for 1 drink and a taxi home.  We left our drinks at the table, went up to dance and the next thing I remember was waking up in hospital.
Apparently: ‘I walked into the hospital alone and told the nurse that I didn’t know what happened or where I had been.  There was bruising to the left side of my mouth, swollen lip and graze on my forehead and left hand.’  How I walked into that hospital I don’t know because I didn’t know it even existed.  I didn’t know who I was or anything.  When my memory did start to come back the first memory was pink and purple stripes.  Mairi had been wearing stripy trousers!  The next memory confused me for a while as I remember having a duvet but I knew that I didn’t actually own one.  Mary (another workmate) had just given me one of her spare duvets after learning how cold I got at night.  Eventually more memories came back but none of the actual night out.
What happened – I wasn’t drunk as I only had 1 drink.
Theories:

  • drink may have been drugged (Rohypnol)
  • fell whilst hailing a cab
  • face clipped by a wing mirror of taxi/ambulance/bus

Mairi told me later that we had had a good night out and I had gone for a taxi and she went home.   We haven’t seen each other for years now as she works abroad but we do intend to meet up again as soon as she is back over here.

The grey background with white webbing spray portrays my little grey cells and the cogs are me trying to remember.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Adirondack Currant, Encore silver with clear embossing powder, Distress inks Tattered rose, Black soot and Pumice stone
Card:  White card, white paper
Stamps:  Stampin up Sense of time and Wonderful words, Oxford Impressions Steampunk (little cogs), Technique Tuesday Hanging by a thread, Girls just want to have fun – unknown
Other:  acrylic paint, white webbing spray, Tim Holtz stencils, mica (coloured pink using copic pen), white pen

 

2 thoughts on “Art journal week Friends

  1. Fascinating circumstances that prompted your page Jackie – our minds and memories are such delicate and bizarre things. Really interesting journal entry!

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