Oftentimes when journaling, difficult feelings or emotions rise to the surface and tearing paper is a wonderful kinesthetic outlet for releasing the energy that comes with those emotions. Tearing or cutting paper is an outward expression of an inward experience, a physical act, a physical transformation. Here are 4 ways we ‘experience’ ripping and cutting paper: Kinesthetic Outlet There is deeper magic in a symbolic action - such as tearing paper - compared with just a visual representation of an idea painted on the page. I realised that one of the things I love about tearing and cutting paper (and art journaling in general) is that it is experiential in nature. Why do I enjoy this tearing and cutting paper and reconstructing it in this way in my journals? I didn’t understand why? We did then reconstruct the bits of paper into another art piece which I loved and since then I have had a little obsession with ripping and cutting up drawings, old paper, book pages and anything else that can be ripped.īut it was only recently that I thought about why this was. I remember back in art school working on a still life drawing for a couple of hours, and then our tutor made us tear it up. WHY I LOVE TEARING PAPER AND CUTTING OUT TINY LETTERS FROM BOOKS A SIMPLE ACT OF CREATIVE MINDFULNESS
