Deeper Than Words
Today is my son's birthday, he would have been twenty-five. He died at three weeks old from SIDS. And although so many years have passed since then, I can still recollect everything as if it were only yesterday. Strange how the mind preserves some memories and seems to merely release the rest.
I have always turned to either writing or my artwork as a therapuetic means of coping or clarifying things. Often over the years, I've found myself desperately wanting to create...to get all those feelings reeling around inside of me...out. Sometimes it would work, others not. Sometimes, the canvas, paper or journal simply remained empty, barren, untouched.
But I have found that over the years, Touch Drawing, when I quiet my heart & release my thoughts, fragmented as they might be at the time....my feelings stir and emerge on paper. After so many years, I've drawn and painted and created pieces with digital photography and written a multitude of poems and essays about my son. I guess my point is, that when I had reached a place where I thought I had exhausted all avenues of expressing the same feelings that embrace me year after year....I've found that TD allows me to go deeper than words...beyond what I can conjure up prior to getting started. It simply allows me to be present in the moment with all that I'm feeling and whatever inevitably emerges is usually the precise essence of what I needed to release.
I have always turned to either writing or my artwork as a therapuetic means of coping or clarifying things. Often over the years, I've found myself desperately wanting to create...to get all those feelings reeling around inside of me...out. Sometimes it would work, others not. Sometimes, the canvas, paper or journal simply remained empty, barren, untouched.
But I have found that over the years, Touch Drawing, when I quiet my heart & release my thoughts, fragmented as they might be at the time....my feelings stir and emerge on paper. After so many years, I've drawn and painted and created pieces with digital photography and written a multitude of poems and essays about my son. I guess my point is, that when I had reached a place where I thought I had exhausted all avenues of expressing the same feelings that embrace me year after year....I've found that TD allows me to go deeper than words...beyond what I can conjure up prior to getting started. It simply allows me to be present in the moment with all that I'm feeling and whatever inevitably emerges is usually the precise essence of what I needed to release.
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