cheiro urgia: Night

24 October, 2025

Night

I'm horribly late again, and I don't even have any new excuses. I'm busy with appointments, I'm almost done with organizing my crafting corner, and I started to look for job opportunities (not that I'm fit yet, but I guess the employment agency ladies need jobs as well).

I also found a new art therapy group, and in my last session, I managed to create this collage.

It comes late for the current "Night" challenge at the Alphabet challenge blog, but let me explain it real quick anyway. Most of the pieces are cut-outs from different magazines that I've collected over time. I don't have many magazines at home, but sometimes, I save a photo or a quote that I think will come handy at some point in future. With a new creative setting came an abundance of magazines, and I think I spent almost an entire therapy unit just flipping through the pages, looking for motifs.

I decided to start with a full-page photo of the Milky way, placing it all over a page of my art journal. I then fussy cut a couple of planets and clouds. They all found their place on the starry sky.

Once that was done, I took that picture of a girl in a hammock. I think it was originally featured in an ad for something hiking-related, but I decided to fussy cut away all the mountains in the background, and hang the hammock in the starry sky. To add a little something in the lower part of my crafting page, I cut out some hearts, making them look like they grow from the mountain ridge. My last additions were a "handmade with love" sticker which came with one of my Etsy purchases, and a butterfly that ended up in the middle of the whole scenery.

I'm not sure about the message of the image, nor about how to interprete it, but I do like the feeling that comes with it. The night isn't dark and scary, but full of colours and floating curiosities. It does remind me of my own hammock, and how easy it felt to swing in it this summer. Sitting in it feels completely different than sitting in a chair, it makes it possible to sit while relaxing all of your muscles, and it worked wonders with my burning backpain (which turned out to be inflammation from an autoimmune disease, and not "something in my head"). My mom helped me prepare the balcony for winter this week, but I certainly hope to bring it back to life next spring. Until then, I will just enjoy the views - even if a sudden afternoon storm looks as dark as the night.