I'm an art therapist and artist, adventuring down the path of transition. If you're interested in art as therapy, artistic identit..
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Rest is not the opposite of action.
Published on 2012-01-03 17:19:00
Photo by shikeroku (used under Creative Commons license)Sometimes my fallow periods are filled with resistance: I want something specific to happen and it's just not happening (yet), leading me to recognize that things are still germinating. At other times, lying fallow is a deliberate choice that I make.Six months ago I received two devastating pieces of news within a few days of each other, and the nature of my circumstances led me to choose rest as the best course of action. It's as if I were
Metamorphosis
Published on 2011-08-31 09:31:00
I created this mixed media collage/assemblage, titled Metamorphosis, to donate to the "Art Lives Here" silent auction fundraiser for Hirsch Wellness Network, which provides creativity workshops to cancer survivors and caregivers. This piece is a diptych that incorporates tea and coffee stains, vintage pattern paper, ink, image transfer, magazine collage elements, and found objects.A few detail views:Some of the other art works to be featured can be previewed at the "Art Lives Here" auction Flick
On the creative process
Published on 2011-08-22 11:07:00
1. "Just being at the piano – egoless – is to reach that place where the only thing that exists is the sound and moving toward the sound. The music on the page that was outside of you is now within you, and moves through you; you are a channel for the music, and play from the center of your being. Everything that you have consciously learned, all of your knowledge, emanates from within you... You are at one with yourself and the act, and feel as if the playing has already happened and
