Intuitive Collage - Step by Step

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

~ Carl Jung

Intuitive collage is a process of quieting your everyday mind and inviting imagery to express the story of your inner world.

An intuitive collage will always reveal something about yourself that you do not yet know. Intuitive collage will convey the "growth edge" emerging from your unconscious mind.

I love intuitive collage because it does not require traditional artistic "talent." Over the past 30 years, intuitive collage has taken me on a journey to the depths of my unconscious, and it continues to inform me today.

Intuitive Magazine Collage

Supplies

You will need a sketchbook or loose paper, a glue stick, scissors, and magazines to cut up. 

Magazine Collage Process

1. Quiet your mind. Take three deep breaths and quiet your mind. Sink your awareness deep into your body. Set your rational mind on "silent" and sense into what you do not yet know inside yourself.

2. Tear out 10-20 magazine pages. Quickly flip through a magazine and instinctively pull out 10-20 pages that move you emotionally, positive or negative. 

3. Cut out your imagery. Meditatively cut out 10-15 images and words that emotionally move you the most.

4. Arrange your collage. Intuitively arrange your imagery. Lay down your largest images as your background and layer your smaller images and words on top spontaneously.

5. Glue down your images and words. Gently move your image arrangement to the side of your paper and glue down your background first. Then, layer on the other images.

6. Contemplate your collage. Hold your heart gently and soften your eyes. Sense into your collage and contemplate what it means to you.

Meditate Into Your Visual Language

Initially, an intuitive collage presents a "feeling-tone" that may not have words. So bask in the "feeling-tone of your inner world in visual form.

If any insights or words "pop into" your mind, write them down on the back of your collage. If no insights come, enjoy the feeling of your honest self-expression.

Try to contemplate your collage for an entire day and then put it away. Pull it out at a later time and see if more insights arise.

Visit Collage for Self-Discovery for a more in-depth instruction.