Painty sketchbooks

For my cross crit, I decided to submit work that I have been doing 'between' my other work, the stuff I have been making when I have wanted to not think and let my brain rest, this is when I tend to have the best and most useful ideas. I've been trying to stop any intention and paint in an intuitive way. I~ did this as an enforced break from overthinking and being frustrated at feelings of confusion. 
I really enjoy this, so it has been divorced from all my project work and ideas. Working in the wood room also calms me down and turns me into a doer rather than a thinker. So I took scrap wood and I ran them through machines, not thinking about how they would turn out- fully being in the moment. 
I have realised that although I still do not have a talent for painting (I use paint straight from the tube and use palette knives) I have actually been bringing it into my project. Thoughts of layers, a reveal, the hidden, colour, intuition, asmr, saturation etc have filtered into it. 
First I wanted to scratch away parts to show other tones, then I used sandpaper to experiment with a more subtle, blurry, dreamy quality. I used materials to create a 'specialness'. I covered parts. I wanted to darken the objects so the colours could barely be identified. 
The finished work for the cross crit is an assemblage, if I were to do it again I would light them with a grey, cold light. I think this colour is ethereal and 'ghostly' while still being organic. It would also mute the tones.