Slowly Slowly
Esso Esso The times are urgent; let us slow down. African saying As we listen to our bodies, our inner life, and to process the world at large, we move into a quiet, hidden, protected space to allow our vulnerablities…
Category Art
LONGING
Our Bodies are a Visual Resource
I just completed a series of classes with a group of young lovely woman. We worked with learning to see our bodies as an embodiment of presences that teem with life. The body is an endless resource of imaginative possibilities.…
Field of Gold
Preparing gleaming surfaces, their light such joy to the hungry eye… gold has been used for centuries with cinnabar and lapis to speak of awe.
Befriending the lack of Control
One remarkable thing about engaging with markmaking that includes water is that, when we add water to an initial water-soluble mark we have made, that mark begins to MOVE…it bleeds into adjacent marks…it sends a narrow stream down the page…it…
Ephipany
Here’s a beautiful and revelatory story from a member of our markmaking class: Marcia, the class participant, has a manual therapy/craniosacral healing practice. She has many years’ experience, and works both from her considerable medical knowledge and her intuitive…
Strength of presence
In yesterday’s art class, we were invited to drop into an inner, meditative world, and respond with art materials to what arose…immediately a dark blue stone arose in the inner mind…dark and maybe faceted, it was unclear, mysterious, numinous. …
Becoming Salt
We as humans enter the sea and found we were invisible, dissolved, as we became like salt. Reduced but not destroyed. Absorbed in pure fluidity. Great movement in the sea churns and spews us on this hard solid surface. We…
Our Hands Perception
Our hands have their own cognition. We hold our hand’s palm to palm. We sense the sensations that move in our hands and possibly send signals throughout us. Images may surface, or our hand may lead us because we focus…
Sinking and Falling
Children see magic because they look for it. Children use their bodies to explore the world. They learn to become sensitive by rolling down hills, jumping up and down, twirling, swinging. hanging upside down, laying on the ground and seeing…
Play and Celebrating the Relief
This week I spent time with each member of our experimental group. I gathered a key word or feeling from each member to put together this prompt. Here it is. The fool hands you a magic box. In the box…
Grounding and Expanding
In our art group we are experimenting with Embodied Imagination through the act of making art. We begin with body awareness. We take note of where we are before the prompt begins for the days exploration. This week we worked…