Mixed media, 2012
This is an exploration of art as therapeutic process through intentional composition and gestural flow, incorporating various media. Every human being is, at some point, wounded. Artistic expression, in any form, has the potential to provide a visual communication of the therapeutic process of the healing of mind, body and spirit.
Historically, bloodletting was used as an attempt to cure human afflictions. The process of bleeding was thought to eliminate the body of the illness, and if the person survived, they were "healed". Similarly, the therapeutic process is a difficult and painful one. It is as if one bleeds out in the hopes of making the self whole again. If the process is successful, the affliction may leave, drain out and dissipate. Yet at times it seems, if there is any hope of spiritual and emotional survival, there must be a sacrifice of nearly all of the life-sustaining defenses and illusions that have been produced and built up in the being over time.
*All images are the original work of Tammy Giles Kepner. Please do not reproduce without permission.
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