OCTOBER - THE ART OF COLLECTING

A month of gathering the things that ask to be kept.

Once we begin paying attention, something rather wonderful happens.

We start finding things.

A feather.
A photograph.
A sentence copied from a book.
A ticket tucked into a pocket.
The particular green of October moss.
A recipe written in someone's handwriting.
A collection of circles appearing in photographs.
A phrase you keep hearing.
A color that suddenly seems to be everywhere.

The Art of Collecting is an invitation to follow those threads.

Not because the things we gather are necessarily valuable.
But because our attention has made them meaningful.

Throughout October, we'll explore collecting as a creative practice—a way of following curiosity, recognizing patterns, preserving memory, and learning something about ourselves through the things we choose to keep.

We'll make collections both tangible and intangible.
We'll collect objects and words.
Colors and photographs.
Questions and fragments.
Perhaps even moments.

We'll explore what happens when we stop asking whether something is important enough to keep and instead ask:
Why does this keep asking for my attention?

And we'll see where the answer takes us.

THE OCTOBER GATHERING

At month's end, we'll bring pieces of our collections together and create our second small mixed-media artwork around the question:
What asked to be kept?

Your October piece will stand beautifully on its own—or become the second panel in your Autumn Triptych.