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The Unfolding Moment

The Unfolding Moment

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I'm an art therapist and artist, adventuring down the path of transition. This blog offers snapshots from my journey, in no particular order. If you're interested in art as therapy, artistic identity, mindfulness, spirituality in art, art therapy education...or if you just like seeing random sketchbook pages...you're in the right place! Welcome!

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  • Reflection: Self-Care for Artists

    Posted on Wednesday December 30th, 2009 at 15:36

    I'm sick again. As a healthcare volunteer, I've been inoculated against H1N1 and the seasonal flu, but I seem to be catching every other possible bug that goes around. Being sick always brings me face-to-face with Resistance. It quickly shows me what...

  • Holding Zone

    Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 13:47

    I've been juggling a lot of different roles lately: two unrelated part-time jobs, volunteering at a local hospital and volunteer training for hospice, continuing my search for opportunities to use my art therapy training, and now co-ownership of an o...

  • Retrospective: Stumbling Towards Grace

    Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 10:52

    Stumbling Down the Path (2006). Paper, fabric, and found/collected objects on plastic and wire armature. Once upon a time, the story goes, a seeker asked a monastic, “What do you do in a monastery?” And the old monastic said, “Oh, ...

  • Reflection: Beginning, and Beginning, and Beginning

    Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 15:48 in Identity, process, cycles

    Phoenix Seed Cycle by Melanie Weidner. Image used by permission of the artist.  Autumn is a season of mixed emotions. I love to watch the daily changes in familiar trees as their leaves shift hues—delicate gradations here, bold sweeps of f...

  • Reflection: Stitching Meditation

    Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 17:41 in drawing, reflection, stitching, process, why

    It is from fiber that all living organisms are built—the tissues of plants, and ourselves. Our nerves, our genetic code, the canals of our veins, our muscles. We are fibrous structures.—Magdalena AbakanowiczStitching: it’s a rhythmic,...

  • Retrospective: “Now, Again, Poetry, I Grasp For You”

    Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 10:03 in poetry, process, sketchbook, retrospective, andy goldsworthy, undergraduate thesis

    Now, again, poetry,…I grasp for you, your bloodstained splinters, yourancient and stubborn poise—Adrienne Rich, “The Fact of a Doorframe” The following is an excerpt from my undergraduate thesis, a year-long exploration of spirituality t...

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