The word for my prompt challenge group this month is “process.” It’s got so many possibilities I haven’t known where to start. But I noticed I’ve been paying more attention to how I, and the people around me, go about doing tasks. How I make dinner, how I organize my day, watching my husband repairing some trim in our kitchen…
Recently I’ve been making collages that combine my haiku and my very large box of scrap paper. So I thought I’d photograph the process for a blog post.
First I selected 8 haiku to hand-set in my “house font” Bembo (the only one I have in metal). Then I letterpress printed them on my favorite paper, Hahnemühle Copperplate. Here’s the chase with the haiku all locked up and ready to print.
![Ready to print](http://www.greenchairpress.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/collage-chase.jpg)
Next I made a debossed panel above each haiku, using the method here.The collages sit inside the panel. Copperplate is a soft mould-made paper that takes both letterpress and the panel-making technique very nicely.
![Making a debossed panel](http://www.greenchairpress.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/collage-deboss.jpg)
Before I got started, I dumped all the paper out of my scrap box and organized it by color and the stored the colors in separate large envelopes.
![Collage making scraps](http://www.greenchairpress.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/collage-scraps.jpg)
Then the fun begins—start cutting and combing the scraps . Most of the scraps are japanese moriki, but some are my own paste papers. Over the past month I’ve made a collage pretty much every day, usually first thing—it’s been a good way to ease into the day, thinking about color and shape combinations.
Once I finish one, I hang it up on one of the long steel rods I’ve affixed to the wall, using magnets. Looking at them this way gives me ideas for future pieces.
![Many collages](http://www.greenchairpress.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/collages-many.jpg)
Here’s a closeup of one of them. To give you an idea of scale, the finished piece is 8×10 and the collage is 4-1/2×4-1/2 inches.
![Collage](http://www.greenchairpress.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/collage1.jpg)