Wednesday, January 28, 2009

bus tickets

Today I went through my journal from my India trip and decided to scan some of my sketches I had made while traveling. I realized one of the most amazingly striking pages in my whole journal was one that I never really intended to be art.

Every morning I would take the 202 city bus to work. For four rupees I would get a small little ticket stub--a scrap piece of paper the bus owner had stamped a ticket number on. Everyday was a different ticket. After purchasing a glue stick at the market, these little bits of paper quickly became my daily craft project. So many colors. So very India.




4 comments:

jimmy jimmy said...

that is a beautiful page.

mant said...

what a great piece you've put together! nice work.

do they print these on old documents or book pages or something?

Katie Reardon said...

thanks, guys!

yes, mike, they print the tickets on anything and everything. lots of old office papers, sometimes old newspapers. you never knew what you were going to get.

low said...

that's an incredible image.

thank you