When I first learned about the mid term project I did not think about what relationship I wanted to do the project on until I was talking to my roommate about home. I realized that I wanted to do my project on my mom who reminds me of home all the time. I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to do with this until I saw some of the other presentations on the first day and that is where I discovered my inspiration and that night I worked on my first art piece. This whole process was definitely a different experience because I did not really think about my relationship in depth until deciding what to do with it. It also took some time to pick just a few things that we love to do out of all things that we do when we are together.
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As I was going through my process the project brought up many emotions good and bad, but actually going through the process and seeing how it made me feel in the end was worth it. I personally do not show all of my emotions and doing these art pieces gave me a really great reflection on how I perceive the relationship I have with my mom. Art Therapy is an amazing profession that I am really looking forward to being apart of and to help people that decide to use Art Therapy for an outlet to a persons thoughts and …show more content…
It is all in the eye of the beholder and as a go throughout the rest of this class it has opened my eyes to how I see things and even do things at times. One thing that stood out to me in Bruce Moons book is existentialism and how its about the process and the meaning of what a person is doing not the look of the finished art piece itself (Moon 2008, p. 118). Before this class I did not really think about how to some art is one of the only ways to communicate a person emotions and as it says in the book that in some cases that communication is not really present in peoples lives (Moon 2008, p. 122). Another thing I did not see art as play unless thinking of children drawing and it definitely put me into a different perspective thinking about how even if there are some horrible things that can happen, but there is a way to make a person not see just the bad and see the good as well (Moon 2008, p.
My first …show more content…
As I was going through my process the project brought up many emotions good and bad, but actually going through the process and seeing how it made me feel in the end was worth it. I personally do not show all of my emotions and doing these art pieces gave me a really great reflection on how I perceive the relationship I have with my mom. Art Therapy is an amazing profession that I am really looking forward to being apart of and to help people that decide to use Art Therapy for an outlet to a persons thoughts and …show more content…
It is all in the eye of the beholder and as a go throughout the rest of this class it has opened my eyes to how I see things and even do things at times. One thing that stood out to me in Bruce Moons book is existentialism and how its about the process and the meaning of what a person is doing not the look of the finished art piece itself (Moon 2008, p. 118). Before this class I did not really think about how to some art is one of the only ways to communicate a person emotions and as it says in the book that in some cases that communication is not really present in peoples lives (Moon 2008, p. 122). Another thing I did not see art as play unless thinking of children drawing and it definitely put me into a different perspective thinking about how even if there are some horrible things that can happen, but there is a way to make a person not see just the bad and see the good as well (Moon 2008, p.