art therapy

This is a quote from Leykoteya’s post Original post Art Therapy

The creative process helps to see the invisible through the visible.

“A moving point, creating a line, creates a form,” said the artist Paul Klee. – The form is not the result, but the genesis. Art exists according to the same laws as the entire universe.

Any dot created by man-made contains the identity of the author. After all, the person himself is both a point in the universe and the universe itself. When we were small, sounds and lines organically connected in us through rhythm. If we had not been taken out of this blissful state of wholeness, we would have reached a reflection of reality in a different way. But not of a general kind, but of its own. Drawing has led many to disbelief in their own strength.

Turn on the music and dance. First, without drawing, let the body hear the rhythm. It may seem ridiculous to you to dance alone, but this is the easiest way to enter a drawing in which, apart from lines of different tension and voids – pauses – between them, there is no content. When you dance, you create different forms with movement. They come and go without leaving a trace. Now try to “transfer” these forms onto paper in sync with the sound of the music.
This exercise will help you free your hand so that it moves behind the coal, so that it leads the hand, and not the hand – it.
He who can draw a point and a line can draw everything.

So, through scribbles, which are nothing more than a method of analyzing simple forms (children start with this!), My adult students return to forgotten childhood sensations. Here is what my student says: “Drawing classes remind me of archaeological excavations; the farther, the earlier layers open – childhood impressions, sensations. Everything that made an impression – no matter how long ago it was – does not go anywhere, emerges from the depths of memory, just as bright, and instantly makes me five years old. And every time I understand that then, in childhood, everything was serious, for real, experienced completely. I am learning not so much to draw or sculpt as to accept myself, my imperfection and perfection. Exhibit imperfect works, express incoherent thoughts.

Art reveals the state of the soul. Art therapy, by its influence on the irrational, helps us to cope with those deep phenomena that are not formulated in words. Inexpressible states find resolution in colors and forms. Creativity releases from under the bushel not only sadness and sadness, it gives an outlet for joy. The joys of being, the joys of being who I am.
Elena Makarova, writer, teacher, art therapist