This is my manifesto. 1. Expressive arts is intermodal Not just multimodal. Intermodal. That means we use the different modes to see our images, thoughts and yearnings through the different lens each offers, in combination with each other. Our cells express hidden wisdom through expressive movement. Spontaneous image making is a form of active imagination – dreaming while awake. Improvised […]
So what exactly is Expressive Arts? And what does it have to offer you?
Healing a pesky sub-personality
Sisters, let me tell ya, it has been QUITE the week here. I love summer break, don’t get me wrong. But being home all the time forces me to deal with all the stuff I escaped by going to work. The grand experiment this week is to see what effect creativity has on my ability to deal. And what […]
The art version of kale and spinach
Sometimes color makes me sick. It makes my throat tighten in the same why it tightens when I think about Cinnabon. Sickly, overstimulated, fake, cheap even. When this happens, it is hard to make art. My friend’s 8 year old daughter had the solution. “Sometimes I just pick one color, just one colored pencil and I draw a peace […]
Why learning how to box made me a better artist
There you are, remote in hand, the kids driving you nuts, trying to read the mood of your significant other, feeling defensive and/or pouty. Out of the corner of your eye, you see the table, piled with clutter, where, if you weren’t so “lazy” and “untalented,” you would be creating. But the thought of creating is so blah, who cares? […]
Atheism, Mysticism, and Art
I call myself a reluctant atheist.
Pinned down, I do not truly believe in anything supernatural. And my shoulders sag a bit with this admission.
And yet.
My life is better, so much better when I pretend that I do believe otherwise.