And that is a wrap!  The 2026 100 Day Project is over.  I am happy that I completed it on time with only a few blips along the way.  Completing a long term project like this brings with it mixed emotions.  There is the joy that comes with achieving the goal, but there is also the let down.  Something that has been a part of my (almost) every day for one hundred days is now gone.  What will I do with those 15-30 minutes each Day?  That doesn’t seem like  much time, but it was dedicated time for meditation and creativity.  Both of those things go a long way in making any day a better day.  And yet, I’m ready for a change, a change in the focus of my creative energy and my spiritual energy.  I do know that I want to spend more time playing my guitar, but other than that, I don’t know what the muse has in store for me.

All that said, I did enjoy this project a lot.  And, it taught me many things.

All of the pieces that I used in each of these one hundred collages were taken from my “scrap basket.”  They were practice drawings or brush technique exercises, swatch pieces, pieces of paper where I had cleaned a brush, off-cuts, and so on.  None of them was created with a specific purpose.  They kept accumulating in the basket.  I decided that I needed to make “something from nothing.”  It is funny how with new eyes and a new mindset, beauty and purpose emerged in these many discarded pieces.  I saw firsthand this transformation in paper and also the possibility for the same to happen all around us…in towns, buildings, pathways…and in people.

As I said in an earlier post, there is a challenge and a freedom that comes with working with minimal materials.  Since everything i used had to come from the basket, I was not paralyzed by the abundance of art supplies in front of me.  I did not have to choose a medium or a color palette, shapes, or sizes, or a meaning.  I simply thumbed through the basket and let a “scrap” speak to me each day.  From that point on, the collage created itself.  This may sound like limits and rules and a stifling of the creative process, but it was actually an amazing kind of freedom.

As I continue to reflect on the past 100 days of creating these minimalist meditation collages, I’m sure I will have more thoughts, but for now, here are the final nine days, days 92-100 of the 2026 100 Day Project.

I am most grateful to those of you who stuck with me and offered words of kindness and support along the way.  A big shout out to the few of you who walked closely while working on your own 100 Day Projects, especially Tina Fowler.

“Meditation #92”

 

“Meditation #93”

 

“Meditation #94”

 

“Meditation “95”

 

“Meditation #96”

 

“Meditation #97”

 

“Meditation #98”

 

“Meditation #99”

 

“Meditation #100”