Goddamn Cheetah—in progress

No apple yet, but this is what I came up with for a recent art therapy assignment. I was to try to think of something/one that is doing what it's supposed to be doing (is making a valid choice, is not making a mistake) by not being urgent, by resting. Well, big cats spend most of their time resting. They expend energy in bursts to take down prey, but other than that, they sack-out most of the time. And that's what they're supposed to do. Thats them being what they are. Being that way is valid. So I was to do an image about that. But did I make the image of a figure at rest? OF COURSE NOT! SMH.

So now my assignment is to show her at rest. What does it take for her to be at rest? Well, I can tell you right now she'll be up a tree. 

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4/3/21 Con -tained-taminated + apple

 

03/26/2021 Untitled self-portrait

 

03/11/12 Amphitrite x Pele | Fire & Water

I’ve made a fire every day for at least a couple of months now.  It’s become very important. Something that’s MINE. So my therapist’s like do an image about that. Only when I contemplated it I kept thinking of all the people who were killed with fire on purpose (witches, heretics, victims of terrorists) and how awful that is. So I surrounded her with water to make it safe. 

03/08/21 Five Birds

 Here’s the apple that Three Birds was missing + some other tweaks.

My therapist was in favor of a detail just focusing on the yellow form (originally from an art therapy Group work related to a variety of specialty honey that has great meaning for me—Basswood Honey. If you haven't tried it, you are missing out on an essential life experience.) So here is that as well.

Here is the original art therapy piece:

02/25/21 Inside Outside

I seem to be really drawn to this color right now, which is interesting because I spent a lot of my life with a very strong aversion to pink. But this crazy-strong ultra-watermelon is really doing something for me right now. When I was doing this, I was listening to an audiobook where the protagonists were really misunderstanding each other and feeling betrayed. No idea how that plays into what it is, but there you go.

1/28/2021 Woman—In Progress

So this painting seems to want to be one of a series. Not much progress today in terms of change to the main image. today’s work is behind the scenes, including time spent creating the other images, messing around in ProCreate, and experimenting with lightning and star sparkles. Here’s a detail:

01/26/21 Untitled—In Progress

 

1/10/2021 Art Therapy Homework Mandala + stems

 

01/09/21 Art Therapy—In Progress

Well, I just realized this doesn’t have an apple. I’ll get one in there. So consider this in-progress. This is some art therapy work of mine having to do with the space where what you think you should be is determined by others and acceptance that what you are is acceptable as is