Haiku April 22, 2013 Art Journaling

Visual stories

Paper, glue, images, paint,

Art journal collage.

Art Prescription:  Great group of art journal artists today. Everyone has a story, and it’s creative and healing to express it with images. Here you will see the unconscious surface. Be free, respond to the colors and images…be in the moment.

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Haiku April 16, 2013 Hope

Hope is the thing with

Feathers. Did Emily know

How we would need this?

Art Prescription:  I’m working through my grief and helplessness over the recent tragedies. Though I try to be positive here on the Art Prescription, I also want to be genuine. My work today is an expression of this…be well…My chop, hand-made in China, says “Hope.”

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Haiku March 14, 2013 Energy Field

Like dye in water

Contagious emotions

Trickle through people.

Art Prescription:  Are you aware of the energy you give off? Ever witnessed something like:   the boss comes into work in a bad mood, she shares it, then later that energy is passed on to an unsuspecting person, who then leaves work and on the ride home has road rage…the recipient carries that agitation onward, yells at her cat, the cat takes a swipe at the dog, the dog decides to chew a hole in the husband’s brand new sneakers, the husband comes home to tell about his swell day to a disgruntled crew…and everyone goes to bed grumpy!! Rewind…What if at first pass that negative energy could be re-routed?

How do you “shake it off”, “turn the other cheek”, “re-frame”, and “let the buck stop there?”

I write haiku!! and paint!! Creativity is an excellent channel for stress, and increases good chemicals in your brain for positive emotions.

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