1. I promised "The Poet" I would bring some poems. The first thing he did was come over to me and inquire about them, while I was painting a treasure box. When I said I forgot them, he said "oh, I will let you get back to your painting." While I painted, I thought about the situation. I felt as if I had hurt his feelings. I thought perhaps he did not take me seriously. After a while I returned to him and struck up some conversation. We planned on writing a poem together and I will definitely not forget my poems next week. Here are some interesting questions this situation raised... What do you do if you disappoint a client? I am worried that my poetry might be to risky or offensive, what should I do? If I want to talk to this poet about his life, I am assuming it has walked some interesting roads, and if he feels comfortable with sharing is it appropriate to ask hard questions? What if he wants to know things about me that I am uncomfortable sharing?
2. I am definitely more of an emphasis on therapy rather then art for therapy person. This is a hard realization since I have a fine art background and I love making art. I am not sure if this is because of the way that TAE is approaching their art for therapy or if it is because I am drawn more to the therapy part. Example 1 of 2:
I had helped a young autistic fellow draw a moose last week and the other volunteer decided to paint over all of our portion. This makes sense, because I am not a trained painter and this volunteer is having an art show with the young fellow to show a progression representing his teaching and it's influence.
Example 2 of 2:
The teacher for the day was drawing a clients drawing for him. I am not sure if he had the mental capacity to say how he was feeling about the situation. The only reason I thought it might have bothered him was he kept bringing it up as a "joke".
I understand that art feels good to make and that the act of making art can be therapeutic. I am just more interested in helping people understand things about themselves through examining and discussing the images they create. At TAE, it seemed that the focus was more on creating a pretty picture than about the artist expressing themselves, or understanding the self from the art.
I would like to come up with a project to do with some of the students, but from being in the open studio it is hard to gage what has been done and was successful in the past.
Here are some images of the treasure box I created and then my final assignment of the evening was to undertake organizing magazine clippings. This was funny because it reminded me of the number 5 photo collage...hehe. However instead of 3 boxes of people, words, and animals there are folders and folders and folders in 3 drawers with labels like jewelry, household, cars, nascar, water....and I am so excited to make this mess make some sense.
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