For our creative response, Yihan and I decided to make a collaborative collage book using materials we had access to during the partnership. We had the chance to take a variety of tasks and positions during the partnership, and we thought a collage book would be a good way to reflect our experiences.

We see the book as our personal experiences working with the VABF for the past 3 months.

We used photographs and materials from the book fair such as their pamphlets and flyers in our collage. We also wanted to represent the small details of our personal experiences – such as incorporating a picture of nails (setting up the silent auction at the Fundraiser), and screenshots from the Transit app and snapshots from the bus to depict our long commute to East Vancouver.

As membership secretaries, we spent a lot of time updating and reorganizing the membership list on Google Spreadsheet. We decided to incorporate that into our collage along with other membership materials (membership sign up sheets).

Yihan and I worked on different pages and then we assembled them into a book. We thought this would reflect the way each of us brought our own different set of skills and worked together as a team. Collage and book are also not the main media in our own art practices, so it was a fun challenge for us.