ByGiora Carmi
Maybe you wonder who is this little line in the picture that I called the baby with the orange light? He represents, for me, awareness, which is always newly born. Right now it is looking at the rest of the painting in a previous blog, where there is some struggle. But he is from endlessness,…
ByCarrie Beleno
We see the divide. We feel it in every bone in our bodies, around every corner we turn. It seems endless and exhausting. Ready to bridge it? I am. But first, here’s how it won’t work: It won’t work by trying to convince those on the other side of the divide that they are misled,…
ByRobyn Harris
Connecting with others One of the biggest challenges of our current ‘lockdown’ situation is that it is lessening our ability to engage in face-to-face interaction with others. Humans are social beings and we need to feel a sense of connection in order to experience full wellbeing. In the initial shock and fear of coronavirus the…
ByGiora Carmi
And how does the last entry relate to my despair? Like Jonathan, I want to have my feelings acknowledged, so that I can let them go. I show my moods, my feelings and my beliefs to myself, when I paint. Before I start, I always ask that the painting will show me what is going on…
ByGiora Carmi
This is the beginning of the answer that I asked in the previous post.I sat with the eleven years old boy in the art therapy room. Let’s call him Jonathan. Christmas was coming and he wanted to draw a Christmas tree. I have been working with him for a few weeks by now and noticed…
ByGiora Carmi
I have been on the spiritual path from the day I was born. Calamities happened and revelations were revealed. I have experienced the highs and the lows of human experience.The tendency is to push toward the highs and use any method that I can find, to eliminate the down turns. These days I wake up…
ByRobyn Harris
One of the things that I’m finding most concerning at this time is that we seem to be so focused on fear and the things not to do, rather than things we can do to take care of ourselves and our wellbeing, both now and going forward into the new ‘normal’, whatever form that might…
ByGiora Carmi
H and I spoke about the light that I saw on the wall outside of my window. I mentioned opening a window and then opening the opening in the window.We talked about the pain. I thought about health and what my feet will do in a healthy situation. I have been making some kind of…
ByJulia Chi
I am enshrouded by white grey clouds, all above and around and then as I look up the street it is clearing and they are below the little white house, white sheets stretching across the road… And further up on the high peaks – a layer of snow… I still have no voice, the internet…
ByRobyn Harris
The recent events around the world, sparked by the death of George Floyd have saddened me deeply on many levels. Yes, of course racism is a terrible thing, and of course Black lives matter. I don’t mean to take away from that in any sense. But I think this issue goes way beyond that, and…
ByGiora Carmi
First started with a face. It is on the left.I almost decided to draw a face in a way that can be recognized. I started in this way and as I went along I answered impulses from the heart and distorted the face beyond recognition. Then I started drawing a little house. I thought about…
ByCarrie Beleno
It’s impossible to ignore all of the things that are dividing humanity right now, isn’t it? Politics, race, bureaucracy, government officials, laws, social media, school scheduling, medical care…Even a simple five-inch square of cloth. A five-inch square of cloth. Are you exhausted yet? I know I am. But there’s a cure. A very simple cure….