This fall, I approached an intuitive painting class with some trepidation. After laboring over the first painting I presented my work to one of my mentors, an art therapist, for comment. She asked me what I felt it needed. I was blank. We turned it up-side-down. Again I was blank. She then asked if the [...]
When we practice Intuitive Painting in the studio, there is a relief from meaning that takes place. We don’t ask, as we do in a therapeutic session, what does this painting mean, what story does it tell. We, instead, follow the thread of the painting, step by step, as it reveals itself to us. We [...]
As I am watching somebody carve slashes into a piece of wood, I am thinking of wounding, as is she. After cutting the slashes the way that she wants them, she is now painting the wood gold, and rapping the wood/wound with black and gold thread. She is acknowledging the wound, and how hurt she [...]
