Je parle souvent d’art recyclé, voici quelques unes de mes propres oeuvres: Le triptyque ci-haut est composé de bouchons de liège et plastique (simili liège) provenant de bouteilles de vin. Les tranches de bouchons sont colées sur un canevas rigide peint et le tout collé sur une surface de MDF peinte. Le panneau du centre comporte une grille [...]
Monthly Archives: février 2009
Response Art
« Response art is created when the art therapist, with focused attention, uses his or her sensations, emotions, perceptions, and tacit knowledge of the client to make art. » (Fish 2008, p.70). Response art serves to investigate a specific question, clarify a feeling, document and explore a mood, expand on felt clinical knowledge. The art is usually (but not [...]
La beauté cachée du ‘jeté-trouvé’
Pour ceux et celles qui me lisent vous savez que je suis attirée par les artistes qui savent voir le potentiel de ce qui est considéré un rebut juste bon pour la poubelle. A plusieurs reprises je vous ai parlé d’inspiration et de l’importance de la cultiver. Il est relativement facile de se laisser transporter par ce [...]
Readings in the creative arts-therapies
There are few art therapy related publications out of Canada. You will find they are quite different in flavor, content and the audience they cater to. You can read fulltext articles from the following web places: Cheryl McLean publishes the: CCAHTE Journal . Cheryl Mclean is an art therapy graduate from Concordia University with a strong background in [...]
Creativity to keep the doctor away
I came across an interesting older article on creativity written in Scientific American (March 24, 2005). The article covers a lot of ground by first demystifying the belief that creativity belongs only to the gifted. « Creative thinking is the norm in human beings and can be observed in almost all mental activities. » However much of [...]
