Nina Ross, PhD

When talking about image-making and images with a friend over tea, I admitted that I don’t look for meaning when I make my art. How ironic we laughed that, as an art therapist, I keep quiet when it comes to my own work. My friend said that she understands this. She stated, “We as artists are usually the keeper of the secrets.” Ah, I liked that term immediately. How fun words can be to play with!
We are such keepers of the secrets, I stated, and sometimes, we don’t even know what secrets we’re keeping. Perhaps the art itself plays hide and seek with us., sometimes revealing itself fully, sometimes not. Whatever the case, though, we hold as sacred both what we know, and what we don’t, just being pleased and honored to keep the mystery and aliveness of the images close by.