Making Strides in Tallinn
In a crazy political time, it’s nice to see some progress and making strides in Tallinn, where I just visited, on Art Is Everywhere.
Realistic Tiger and Therapy
Well I’ve been trying to make up for lost time, not by choice. I worked straight from 7am to 12:30am yesterday, going to Fedex/Kinkos three times to get our banner printed, packaged and sent all our casart samples via ground to save cost and picked up the banner, prepared and hand delivered a proposal to a client by 8pm and then prepared a purchase order to be emailed to our printer before just collapsing. And the rest of this week is just as busy. Here a couple of appropriate mentions: 1) A realistic big cat — oil painting of a tiger by Chinese contemporary artist, Du Hao (as posted on…
Art is Therapy
While watching the news tonight, I was struck by how difficult it has been for the survivors of China’s massive earthquake — especially the children. I believe art can be used in therapy to lesson the blow of physical and psychological trauma. In fact the news showed clips of mental health workers helping the surviving Chinese kids in shelters describe their fears and experience during the earthquake by drawing. Art therapy is based on the principle that traumatic experience is stored in the memory as an image. Drawing the image helps process the memory cognitively and lessens the trauma to help resolve it. Here’s an interesting article on Glam Spirit…
