I made a thing

I made a thing It felt a bit like going back to kindergarten: I made a thing today. A thing that’ll brighten up my home office. This is how it went: first, I spent a lot of time going through old nature and bird magazines, looking for the perfect pictures. I took out my scissors and got cutting. I hope I’ve made my old teachers proud (ignore the ragged edges please!). The photos I selected spent weeks, make that months, in a plastic folder, waiting for assembly day. Once I felt I had collected enough clippings, I arranged them on the old poster I wanted to replace and took a picture for reference: Best laid plans and all that… This felt like the smart thing to do: prepare, think of a composition beforehand, make sure it all fits in the space. It’s only when I got on with glueing everything in its proper place, that the doubts started to pop up. Anyway, at this point there was no turning back. Don’t mind the curling edges and unevenly glued on photos; I’m not a professional, this is…