In my second attempt at a collage, I found myself going in a different direction. This one just formed itself into a natural timeline, with the main characters and some of the key issues highlighted around it. It's a lot more sedate and clear than the one I did for the Amulet of Sìochàin, which had some important things in it but which was a bit of a muddle - not that that's a bad thing necessarily, it just surprised me that this one was so different. The image of the arch with the flowers in the middle was the first one I chose - I saw it and knew instantly that this was how the training temples would look.
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This was my first attempt at a collage, and I learned a few lessons on the way. First, don't use blu-tack to secure the collage directly to the wall/whiteboard etc if you have any intention of keeping it later. Removing it was not fun, and it has now been transferred to paper with a combination of blu-tack and glue. Messy. Second, for me at least, the main use of the collage was actually during its creation - fitting together the different images allowed my mind to make new connections I probably wouldn't have thought of otherwise. However, I'm looking forward to returning to this story for edits and seeing what effect restoring the collage to pride of place has on me.
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