Love these questions - An area that many people do not step into. I find lots of info on the how do of art but often feel they are missing something. I have danced in and out of art and crafts for years. Not great at any of it but now as an old lady I am pushing into drawing and painting and as I do these questions surface for me often. "What becomes possible when our art evolves into dialogue and energetic insight" Love the phrase!
Isn't it a great question? I love that you're thinking about it. I also find that art classes can be very technical, which sometimes is great. Or they can be very expressive but they still sometimes to shy away from taking it that next step into figuring out ways to really tap into our intuition and what we don't yet know. There's often so much analyzing and all of that. And I see it in my students as well which is really what got me thinking about this idea of intuitive art and expressive art and is there a difference and what might that be? I'm still trying to really find a lot of languaging for it but I think it's a really interesting idea that we can use our art or anything really really to access this energetic wisdom that we all hold!
My collages have been very revealing. I use lots of newspaper headlines,don't do a lot of planning or considering,just using things that catch my attention for whatever reason. Looking at them years later,actually decades later,I see that my soul was speaking. About things I couldn't even let myself remember. Thanks for asking this question
Love these questions - An area that many people do not step into. I find lots of info on the how do of art but often feel they are missing something. I have danced in and out of art and crafts for years. Not great at any of it but now as an old lady I am pushing into drawing and painting and as I do these questions surface for me often. "What becomes possible when our art evolves into dialogue and energetic insight" Love the phrase!
Isn't it a great question? I love that you're thinking about it. I also find that art classes can be very technical, which sometimes is great. Or they can be very expressive but they still sometimes to shy away from taking it that next step into figuring out ways to really tap into our intuition and what we don't yet know. There's often so much analyzing and all of that. And I see it in my students as well which is really what got me thinking about this idea of intuitive art and expressive art and is there a difference and what might that be? I'm still trying to really find a lot of languaging for it but I think it's a really interesting idea that we can use our art or anything really really to access this energetic wisdom that we all hold!
My collages have been very revealing. I use lots of newspaper headlines,don't do a lot of planning or considering,just using things that catch my attention for whatever reason. Looking at them years later,actually decades later,I see that my soul was speaking. About things I couldn't even let myself remember. Thanks for asking this question
Laura, that's amazing. I think any way we can get away from analyzing and into a deeper soul message is powerful.