Everyday, our state’s Central Power Distribution cuts off around 3 hours of power supply to our area. On one such day, during those three or so hours, my sister and I sat down and cut up old magazines. My idea, of course, but it suited us fine since we both were pretty bored.

The task was simple: Find something in the magazine that called out to us - be it words, pictures or phrases, it didn’t matter. We cut them out into rectangles and squares (at least the best we could’ve without using a ruler and under scant daylight) and then arranged them together on a page, mixing our cut outs together.

The end result: a combination of both our personalities.

It was fun, I’m glad I got around to scan them.

My sister doesn’t indulge in art as my other sister and I do. She does have an artistic sense though, which is why I like involving her in creating something. and she was adorably shy at first at voicing out her ideas, letting me do most of the arranging. Then she opened up a little bit more and we worked together to complete a page.

Now, compare that with what I did by myself before we finished that page:

Bleak in comparison, isn’t it? The lines are more slanted too.