#It’s difficult understanding specifically what my process is since in my current art journey I just slap shit down and be done with it LMAO

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// question for you, dear mac, if you're up for it. i've been thinking about getting back into drawing. it's been *years*, and i was curious if you had any advice for wading back in, especially as it comes to warm up exercises and just getting started? i know that there's a degree of 'you just have to do it'; it's always what i tell writers. but i've been so stuck on how to do some of this on *easy mode* so i don't overwhelm myself. if you're up for sharing your thoughts with all of us! ^_^ love you bunches!

Oh man, I honestly might not be the best to ask for advice LMAO but I can certainly try to help!

More often than not what stirs me to draw is whatever is at the forefront of my attention span. Any hyperfixation I latch onto is the driving force behind not only my ability to draw, but my motivation to do so. So, genuinely, just draw what you’re most passionate about at any given time! It’s perfectly okay if you want to do studies with different aspects of art like anatomy, color theory, etc. but if you’re just dusting off the old drawing tools, I’d recommend centering it around something that gets your hand itching to create. Probably bad advice recommending skipping the basics, but it usually discourages me from creating art, so I hate recommending that as a first step.

Creating is a lot easier said than done when jumping back into drawing, though. So, seriously, I recommend finding some of your favorite art pieces and tracing over them to get back in the groove. People always always look down on tracing, but it’s seriously so helpful as an exercise as long as you’re not posting it and claiming it as your own. That’s what I did when I was a kid, and it helped me find my own style and art process. Tracing can also be beneficial in helping you find the specific look you want for your art. Try different pens, colors, shading to find what you’re comfortable with without having to worry about WHAT you’re creating. That’s where a lot of people get hung up on.

That advice is mostly targeted at digital art, so if you’re working with traditional media, start practicing finding ✨shapes✨ in those art pieces you love. If you need a visual for what I mean, just ask and I can either make something or find some links for you— I know that’s kind of vague =w=;; Anyway, pull the art up on your phone or computer and try and copy it down onto paper. Focus on visualizing the shapes that make up a piece to make it easier to mimic. I always fall back onto traditional art when I’m trying to adjust my style since digital art has its own pressures that get in the way for me.

After you get a bit more comfortable, start finding some references for ideas that are rattling around in your head! Start simple since you don’t want to burn yourself out too much. Do you like drawing character’s faces? Expressions? Environment? Clothing? Hands? Feet??? Little sus but who am I to judge… Tackle your favorites first and slowly start branching out into more complicated pieces! If things aren’t looking right to you, watch some speedpaints or tutorials for your specific hang ups. Also, START COLLECTING ART!!! My phone storage is 99% of art that makes me go “OH WOW.” Figure out WHY a specific art piece calls to you and practice implementing it into your own pieces!

Mainly, don’t stress about your work and just have fun with it! It’s very very easy to start comparing your work to others, but if you’re wanting to create, focus on that feeling: of that joy from putting an idea onto paper and bringing it to life!! If you’re still facing hang ups, more than likely you just have to power through it until you reach a break through. That’s where the “practice makes progress” comes in, sadly 😮‍💨

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Experiencing Your Travels To Spain

Contemplating visiting Spain? Spain - located in southwestern Europe about the Iberian Peninsula - continues to be one of the more preferred attractions and travel destinations equally as much right now since it is definitely previously. Possibly you're wanting to know about where you should pay a visit to in Spain... Maybe you want to learn more about its history and experience its incredible effect in European art work... What ever your causes of seeking to go to are, you're certainly sure to take pleasure in the unique traditions, customs, and background of this region when you've appeared there.

Obviously, the architecture of Barcelona, the Holy Monstreat, as well as the Toledo cathedral turn this a popular coordinate. And as this is this sort of hot vacation area, you're advised to help make your air carrier reservations, motel reservations,  Cafelavista and car lease plans early on - 3 or 4 several weeks in advance as a matter of truth - particularly when tourist might be high (summer season, holidays, etc.). When you would rather vacation "off-period," - which is, while in a time when vacation is reduced, you may possibly not have to make this sort of very early bookings. Within the latter scenario, one month-sophisticated planning may be adequate.

After you've produced your concerns, you may fulfill all of your time preparing for precisely what Spain offers. One of the ways you can do that is certainly by using a neighborhood trip to your preferred library and perusing the enormous quantity of publications about Spain. By doing this, you are able to prepare yourself with the language - possibly even have a look at a number of publications or audio tapes of your terminology (if offered) and additionally understand more about Spain's financial process.

You should always understand admittance needs, inoculations and other security info you will need before going not just to Spain - but also almost anyplace out of the nation. But you can also get to know the dress in the property and possibly use a number of nearby dining places that provide Spanish food and engage in a bit of its native songs. Obviously you can visit your gallery and find out about the ability of the land so that you'll know what to look for after you arrive - specifically, the works of El Greco. The thought the following is to coach yourself amid all of the enthusiasm of going to a position so abundant in tradition!

Now a lot of people like spontaneity - a little bit experience - the unidentified - whatever you want to consider it, but many of us like to create an schedule of things to do and locations to look. If you're the "planning variety," then you definitely might enjoy spending some time to road map out your adventure. And there's certainly no problem with that - seeing that you're visiting a new location, your chances of getting fed up or going against spontaneity are incredibly slim since Spain has a great deal to offer to each of your actual detects!

When and when you produce such an itinerary, some of what it is advisable to involve needless to say are such things as instances to enjoy, acquire trips, attend demonstrates, and (our favorite) store! You might think that this information is hard to find but due to the World wide web, it truly isn't' difficult to get at all. If you're by using a tour operator, after that your endeavours to complete an schedule ought to be pretty little. However, if you're functioning by itself, you are able to certainly look at the tourist websites of Spain and create your very own graph of items to find out and revel in.

If you're helpful with the indigenous words of Spain (which you might have correctly thought is Spanish), it is possible to certainly read through a couple of on the web Spanish classifieds to find occasions and local people which might be of interest for you. Chances are that you'll discover much more amusement info by looking at a Spanish newspaper than you will in the event you solely trusted an English presentation.

After you've arrived and also have discovered transport to your resort, it is possible to inquire further more to locate more interests. By now, you have to be talking just a little Spanish to enable you to effectively talk and exchange money with your accommodation director:

Hola! (Hello)

Gracias! (Thank You)

Como te llamas? (What's your name?)

Como estas? (How are you currently?)

Me llamo... (My label is...)

Soy de United States of America (I'm in the United states)

No comprendo (I don't recognize)

Por favor (you should)

Me numero de telefono es el... (My telephone number is [and then the phone numbers in Spanish [uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, and so forth.)

You'll of course would like to learn how to request other important matters like aid and directions. These are among the points that will make your vacation to Spain more fun - especially as you talk using the natives and try out new foods or amusements that you simply hadn't even prepared for! Just remember to pack the digital camera or your modest online video cam so that you can document your experience and appreciate them loved ones back home.

Journey in Spain by Taxi

Touring by taxi cab in Spain gives an extremely practical way to relocate about and "view-see." Like touring by taxi in the states, lowest charges go with metered mileage along with a small additional cost for baggage and evening hours - nighttime - or holiday brings.

Spain Traveling Recommendations

European Union inhabitants (18 several years or more mature) must individual a nationwide driving permit to operate a vehicle in Spain, however non-Western Union citizens (18 many years or more mature) also need a global Traveling Permit also. The two varieties of residents will need to have car insurance and id (certificate, passport, etc.) legally, is needed always. Chair belts should be worn by all travellers, and travellers under the age of 14 should be seated within the back seating from the motor vehicle. When traveling, keep in mind that driving a vehicle jobs are reversed to American drivers. You have to deliver to on-approaching visitors from junctures and targeted traffic groups.

Additional care should be delivered to restrict your driving for the primary paths specified on the most recent maps with this region as other paths will not be ideal for driving (grime roads, hill passes by, and many others.). In metropolitan regions, you may conveniently refuel your vehicle from unleaded or diesel service stations. However if you'll generate for long amounts of time, it's best if you completely fill your aquarium, as energy stations are sparse in outlying portions of the country.

Driving rates are often restricted to 30 mph to 56 mph, even so traveling rates can increase from 62 miles per hour to 75 miles per hour on highways with more than two lanes. Be prepared to spend both factor and set toll charges related to metropolis admittance approaches.

Traveling in Spain by Automobile / Automobile Rental

Simply because Spain's city centres are so well-known, you are cautioned to prevent traveling in these areas - especially considering that the filter highways within these locations can support targeted traffic traveling in 1 route only. Moreover, left vehicles make driving a vehicle extremely hard. Traveling by vehicle hire is advisable completed by following a recent map of its roads - which offer opinions which are literally remarkable.Visit website for more information about Spain.

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Script for Documentary

Hello there, My name is George. I am currently enrolled at the Colchester Institute studying VFX & Animation. We create in adobe software and 3D software to composite effects into scenes and create movement of characters. However it’s really only Animation that I’m interested in, hand drawn and digital 2D especially. 

Now I’ve never been much of a detailed illustrator but I can deal with cartoons and really thats all I want to do. The idea of drawing a character so many times that they come alive on screen is really captivating to me. In college I’ve created a couple short animations, all of them teaching me what it’s like to draw digitally. I soon discovered there is a lot more to it than I had originally thought. Just drawing the character in different positions isn’t enough, you need to think about the fluidity, consistency and weight of all movements. I decided to study the rules of animation set forth by the disney founders. I then implemented these into my FMP which has given me a deeper understanding as to what really makes the difference between an amateur and a seasoned animator. I learned to become quite accustom to Adobe Animate while making them and I now enjoy using it as my main tool to animate.  

Despite all this, I’m held back by my lack of drawing skills. I enjoy drawing simple cartoons and with animation that’s generally a good thing. However since I have to make all parts myself for FMPs and such, backgrounds and other details are going to look lack luster, which could break the immersion. Working in a studio this might not be a problem, as there will be background artists and others that do the detailed work. Leaving the in-between animation my own duty. However you will still be expected to have artistic capabilities if you want to move up and become a key-frame artist or a producer/director. 

I learnt about this from hearing the story of Hayao Miyazaki. He actually is where I take a lot of inspiration. His work was always about high risk, high reward. He would pay close attention to every little detail of a scene. So much so that the production time would be a painfully long task. There’s a saying that if you pause a Studio Ghibli movie at any point, it would look like a stand alone painting. What has this got to do with me? Well his attention to detail and hand drawn method of making animations are exactly what I aspire to reach. He stared as a in-between artist at Toei Studios, became a key-frame artist and eventually branching off to make his own films in his own studio. He did this, through a long laborious gaining of experience. 

This is where university I think will help me. While I’m learning at university it will be far more specifically aimed at the practice of Animation, that I’ll be gaining lots of crucial practice. Most uni’s offer the chance to work with a partnered company for work experience at the end of the course which would be an incredible “foot in the door” opportunity. This is why my plans are so specific, finish college, go to uni and then get to work in a studio. Its the way a master like Miyazaki did it and its exactly what I plan to do. 

I specifically want to go to, Norwich University of the Arts. Its a dedicated arts university, therefore most of their resources are put towards helping creative practitioners. Its also only an hour away from where I live and the accommodation is much cheaper than that of London's.  

This all however depends if I can get into university. There are various obstacles that might make this difficult. The one I’m most concerned of is the creation of a portfolio. Portfolios are there to impress the Uni’s with things you have created and the creative journey behind them. For me I have a handful of short animations that took dozens of hours to create. My hope is they will understand this as animators themselves, how long a process it is to make them. With my lack of drawing skills however, that’s something I will have to just build up while I practice. My plan is to drawn progressively more detailed background for my animations, each one using a new technique like lighting and focus. 

I’ve followed many animators, mainly because they often have a lot to say. Many recommend not getting into animation. They say it’s a long and mind bending process. But one thing they all say is that the end result is always worth it. One animator, Zach Hadel said, “Anyone can animate, it doesn’t matter their drawing skills”. Animation isn’t how real it LOOKs, its how real the world they’re in FEELS. Thanks for listening.

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Another Kind of Home: Black Hair Care & Transracial Adoption

By Mariama J. Lockington

In 2009 I was asked sit on a panel of black adoptees and address an audience of current and prospective adoptive parents. The audience was primarily white, a mixture of straight and queer couples who crowded into a little room off Market Street in San Francisco to hear what we had to say. We’d been tasked to talk about our experiences growing up as black kids in white families and offer our perspective. I came armed with my story and a bulleted list of advice, but found quickly that what the majority of the room wanted from me was not my advice, but rather my validation. As the Q & A began my fellow panelists and I were thrown a series of declarative statements:

“But things have changed since you were growing up in the 80s. I don’t think our daughter, who is in preschool, is facing any racism yet. She’s still too young.”

“My partner and I have pretty much mastered doing our daughter’s curly hair. We even have black people stop us to tell us how good it looks. I don’t think we need any help in this area.”

This was The Bay Area—a progressive bubble that prides itself on inclusion and acceptance. Why did these statements feel like erasures? Why did it feel like the room wanted my stamp of approval that their kids wouldn’t struggle as we had with racism and identity? The comment about hair was especially triggering.

Did they understand that black hair care is more than just “mastering” a specific technique, but about their daughter’s connection to community, resistance, and pride?

I began writing what would become FOR BLACK GIRLS LIKE ME shortly after sitting on this panel. I wanted to write an #ownvoices story about a transracially adopted black girl who is full of questions and who belongs everywhere and nowhere all at once. I wanted to offer a nuanced story about growing up black in primarily white spaces, and thus, my main character Makeda was born. In the novel, Makeda wrestles with various aspects of her identity, and often compares her curly hair to the straight, brown hair of her adoptive big sister, Eve. Including Makeda’s hair journey in the book was important because for many transracial adoptees hair is a source of deep confusion, trauma, and grief. It shapes the way we interact with the world, the way the world interacts with us. It’s how we learn early on that we are in fact different than our white peers and family members— even when our families assert a kind of colorblindness.

I have had locs off and on for my whole life. I’ve also had cornrows, micro braids, a shaved head, an afro, but as an adult I finally settled on the batch of locs I now wear and take great pride in. But getting to this point was a struggle. My adoptive mother did her best to take care of my hair as a child, learning how to do styles herself or occasionally venturing into black hair salons to have it done for me. And while I am appreciative of the effort she made, I never knew how to communicate to her how vital the physical space of a black hair salon was to me, how important having a black woman consistently do my hair was. How in a black woman’s hands my hair wasn’t “difficult,” “impossibly tangled,” or “unruly” — but normal.

I wish I could say I’d engaged with the couple who made the comment about their daughter’s hair, but in the moment I chose not to. I knew that they had made up their minds: they knew everything about their black daughter’s hair and they weren't looking for advice. And maybe they didn’t need my perspective, maybe she grew up and had an entirely different experience with her hair than I did. After all, the transracial adoptee experience is not monolithic. But for Makeda, and for myself, hair care remains an ongoing reckoning, a source of both pain, connection, and pride. It wasn’t about my mother’s ability to do my hair perfectly, so that it passed some stamp of approval from other black people. It was about being immersed in and belonging to a black community— about seeing myself, seeing my beauty reflected and validated in others around me. It was about reclaiming some small part of what I’d lost in the adoption process— a mirror, a reflection of another kind of home.

Mariama J. Lockington is an adoptee, writer, and nonprofit educator. She has been telling stories and making her own books since the second grade, when she wore short-alls and flower leggings every day to school. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and journals, including Buzzfeed News Reader, and she is the author of the poetry chapbook The Lucky Daughter. Mariama holds a Masters in Education from Lesley University and Masters in Fine Arts in Poetry from San Francisco State University. She lives in Lexington, KY with her partner and dapple haired dachshund, Henry. For Black Girls Like Me is her debut novel.

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MEET THE 2019 FAC RESIDENCY ARTISTS: JESSA LAFRAMBOISE

As an activist and historian, what are the most prominent themes and concerns involving contemporary feminist issues and how do you translate that into your work as an artist?

In my studio practice, I strive to be aware of my socio-political surroundings and approach feminism with empathy and passion. Furthermore, as an artist I aim to position my work as a form of activism. Intersectionality, a concept which was absent from much of 20th century feminism, has since become a major aspect within contemporary feminism and undeniably remains a prominent priority which I work to emulate in all aspects of my practice. However, I believe that the most prominent concerns involving contemporary feminist issues vary greatly depending on the artist. And that’s what makes contemporary feminist art so intriguing and unique; the dialogue of a feminist is just as diverse as the people who make up the feminist community. In the past I have explored issues surrounding body image, identity, gender roles and the sexualization and objectification of women’s bodies through a satirical, creative outlet. Always aligning with current social and political conversation, these themes that I have explored were most pertinent depending on where I was in my own life. This is because these concepts are inspired from my own life experiences which I work to make relevant for a broad and inclusive audience.

However, as an art historian, I am not as invested in exploring contemporary issues. Rather, as an art historian I task myself with developing an in depth understanding of historical issues, topics, conversations and values within feminist art. It is important to recognize that feminism and feminist art did not always successfully align with 21st century values and aesthetics. With the development of 2nd wave feminism, emerged several issues that present day artists and historians seek to address and critique. I strongly believe that the history of feminism and feminist art says a lot about where we are within a contemporary context. Some of the most prominent themes and concerns involving contemporary feminist issues have thus emerged out of the trials and tribulations and the progress and successes of feminists before us. And that is where I situate my work as an art historian.

I just recently participated in a conference at Queen’s University and when I finished presenting my paper, I received a question I was in no way prepared for. They wanted to know how my research into feminist art history influenced my practice as a feminist artist. This was something I had never really considered in much detail; I had always tried to separate these two worlds that I exist in because I didn’t want to recreate or retell what has already been done as an artist. However, I came to recognize that I had a unique opportunity here. Currently it is my pursuit to merge my work as an art historian with my work as an artist and cultivate a dialogue which speaks to themes and concerns involving contemporary feminist issues through an art historical lens. By juxtaposing the contemporary with the historical, my two worlds will collide, and I hope to not only educate the public on the complicated history of feminist art but also address prominent socio-political topics that are relevant and recognizable for viewers to connect with today.   

“Laundry Day”, Jessa Laframboise

Textiles have been re-emerging in the light of a new discourse, one that you are involved in. What has your experience been in utilizing a medium and techniques with such a highly socio-political history and feminist roots?

It wasn’t until my third year of university that I really took to art history. And more specifically, it wasn’t until my professor dedicated an entire class to solely discussing the role of women in art history that I became truly invested. Quite honestly, this was the first time I had the ability to fully immerse myself into women’s role in art history. We spent the 3-hour class looking at women artists from the 19th century and discussing decorative arts within the western canon of art history. I came to learn the troubling history associated with decorative arts – or “women’s work” as it has been referred to – and it fueled a fire inside of me that has yet to be extinguished. I was not about to accept the negative perceptions that had been historically connected with craft associated art and women artists. And so, in my third year of my BFA at Nipissing University I taught myself how to sew. This was a personal pursuit of mine, but its socio-political relevance was equally present in my mind as a I began my journey with textile art. I was taking a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and I was determined to make a prominent critique about “women’s work”, agitating the prevalent hierarchy of fine arts which I was taking part in by incorporating decorative arts into the realm which had historically maintained its explicit absence. And isn’t that what feminist art is all about…making explicit absences present and visible? My first textile project was a tapestry I entitled, Sew High Art and I simultaneously wrote a paper for my art history class called Breaking the Canon: An Examination of Textile Art, and from that moment on I was hooked on textiles and the history of women in art. I started out with absolutely no skill and many of my first sewing projects have since fallen apart. Yet I continued to persist; I continued to sew and learn new skills because I loved the process… I loved how calming yet stimulating it could be, how frustrating yet rewarding it could be.

I remember finding such solace and excitement in fabric stores; rooting through bolts of cloth became my favorite activity. I once went to the fabric store with my mom in the early days of my textile practice and I was complaining about how raw my fingers were. I had been up until 3 in the morning a few nights before sewing a pillow for a class assignment and my fingers were in so much pain that they had even bled; parts of my project is still stained with blood, adding a whole other element that I have come to appreciate rather than try to cover up. My mom suggested I buy a thimble. “A thimble?” I replied extremely confused at what this thing was that she had just mentioned. She proceeded to explain to me the purpose of this illusive thimble. I recall being completely dumbfounded in the middle of the fabric store – and a little embarrassed that I had no clue what it was – and needless to say the thimble changed the sewing game for me. This is because I don’t use a sewing machine. So many people ask me why I chose to hand sew all my projects when a sewing machine would be so much faster. I have tried a sewing machine a few times, but it didn’t give me the same satisfaction and stimulation that hand sewing provided for me. There is nothing better then curling up with a needle and thread and sewing the night away: getting lost in the repetitive movement and feeling truly accomplished every time you pull that thread through the fabric creating a new and unique stitch.

“Confessions of a pocketed pussy”, Jessa Laframboise

How do you celebrate femininity? What are the artistic aesthetics from the 20th feminist movement that inspires you?

My research as a historian is primarily focused on art from the 1960s and 70s and ultimately that is where I get a lot of my inspiration from in my studio practice. I recognize the many theoretical issues that arose out of feminist art during this period, however, aesthetically speaking this was a period in feminist art history filled with vibrancy, colour, satire, kitsch and bold moves. Similarly, textile art began to re-emerge through feminism in an empowering light. Satire and parody specifically within feminist art have their roots in 20th century, 2nd wave feminism as artists used these devices to reveal and critique social constructs in society. I work with satire and parody in a similar, yet contemporary manner. Thus, as an artist, I work to prioritize 4th wave feminist values and themes while maintaining these 2nd wave feminist aesthetics. Its so intriguing how these artists used expressive colour and kitsch as a method of exploring serious and often difficult topics. I similarly want people to be shocked and amused by my approach to feminist art, but then be able to progress through my work, critically and sincerely reflecting on the ideas about society that I have presented.

           Aside from my inspiration from feminist art history, one of the first artists I was ever really drawn to was pop artist, Andy Warhol. Pop art became one of my favorite periods of art and Warhol’s silk screen prints became my obsession. Of course, much of the values and themes that I uphold as a feminist was not reflected in the pop art that I was inspired by. However, I was determined to combine these two conflicting movements and find similarities within them. I have since strived to create a body of work that echo’s pop art aesthetics through a feminist lens that is both subversive and empowering. Utilizing prominent elements of pop art including silk screen printing, colour, text, recognizable objects and commercialization seemed like a great starting point. In mixing pop art aesthetics with 20th century feminist art aesthetics I discuss, critique and portray themes and concerns of contemporary feminism. It should be mentioned that while the themes explored in pop art were often anchored in sexism and misogyny, silk screen print has had a complicated relationship within the western canon of art and has historically been associated with mass production, advertisement and commercial art. Similar to textile art in this sense, printmaking has been an underappreciated form of art that has not always existed within the realm of “fine arts”. This has further perpetuated pop art as a major inspiration for my work and has allowed me to uncover and build connections between pop and feminist art.

           Utilizing these two very different artistic movements and developing a series of work that pulls various aesthetic from pop art and feminist art, I aim to always celebrate femininity as I perceive it to be; femininity is going to be different for everyone, its going to be expressed differently, portrayed differently and understood differently. But for me, the best way to explore and celebrate it is to create work that exists in the intersections between feminine and hyper-feminine. My practice then becomes a sliding scale that I vacillate back and forth on depending on the day, depending on the project. I do not shy away from playing with stereotypes in a subversive way because it allows me to approach femininity as I see it and simultaneously critique the ways femininity has been negatively or stereotypically perceived.  

“Dress up with Miss. Ogny”, Jessa Laframboise

Follow Jessa: @Jessa Laframboise on FB @jesssalaframboise on IG

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BA (Hons) Photographic Arts Major Project 1 Research Report

This should be a summary of and a critical reflection on your research process so far. You should try to give the reader a sense of the process you have been through - your journey, your thoughts and decisions along the way and what has informed the choices you’ve made. Try to be as honest and as critically reflective as you can.

Please extend boxes as required (length 1000-2000 wds)

Name

Emily Kopaskie (Mela Kas)

Major Project Title

(Or working title - how and why did this title develop?)

They Are Me and I Am Them (working title)

No Costumes but All Mask (Working title)

Research Methods

(What methods have you used during this phase of the project and how have they helped you develop your ideas and inform your major project proposal?)

As my dissertation topic goes along with my initial project idea, that research has been apart of my thought process when photographing. Currently I’m writing about about the comparison of two female tropes (Femme Fatale and Manic Pixie dream girls) from completely different time periods but were both formed out of the males perspective and anxiety towards the changing times.  Femme Fatale and MPDG were both tropes that I would see in movies as a kid but never knew what to call them until recently. I have looked into why the men wrote these types of role, what iconography goes with it and how the fact that cinematic language can be more impactful than dialogue.  Part of this research will also include how these tropes had evolved by pop culture or the public redefining their roles and adding visual check lists to spot other examples of these tropes. This also set off a number of blogs and journal entries online by women who declare themselves the real life versions of these tropes, so I was interested in why so many people felt like they were a one dimensional character in real life.

With this in mind, I will be researching the pschyological impact of the cinema language of these tropes.  As Laura Mullvey discusses in her essay Visua Pleasures and Narrative Cinema, movies invite audiences to drop their ego and have it be replaced by the ones on the screen. As this is the process subconisouly I believe some of those images stay with us and persuade our own idea on how we should act and look. As for many years the film industry specifically hollywood was written from the males point of view, these tropes were written with a preconceived idea on how their leading ladies should act in the world.

This topic comes from a subjective place as I have realised I Identify with femme fatale and Manic Pixie dream girl greatly. As a kid I looked up to these characters for being different, independent, interesting and saw how desirable they were. I feel subconcisouly I have learned how to act and cultivated my own identity with them in mind.

Specifically this aspect of my disseratatiing will influence my photographing process as I personally identify with her argument. The easiest way for myself to escape was to loose myself in movies and tv shows. When the fact i didn’t understand my emotions was too much I would try to forget myself by loosing myself into movies and tv shows.

This research helps me be more  thoughtful in examining of my impulse decisions i make while producing self portraits that are inspired by the cinema.

Pilot Project

(What have you achieved through the development of your pilot project/s? What have you learned from the process? Identify the main concepts that might direct or drive your major project.)

I have achieved a decent amount of photos to ether choose from or that are usable  as a inspiration board when continuing.  I have also achieved a bit more of a appreciation of my impulse issues as it helps me be more passionate about photography.

I have learned to pay more attention to my settings on the camera as its important for these photos to be crisp  as I plan on displaying them on a lightbox. I will continue to watch more films for my research and engage with my emotions when watching characters that inspire me.

Audience and Context

(Has a consideration of Context and Audience made you think about your project in a particular way? Have you been aware of the histories, conventions and audience expectations of particular contexts? Have you considered different contexts and how have you responded to them?)

I’m aware that my project is in the same realm as Cindy Sherman, Nadia Lee Cohen and Anja niemi. All of these artists who identify as female work in self portraiture that are inspired by ether common cinema narratives or classic vintage Hollywood fashion of dress. While some are an obvious critique on roles that are available for female and on hyper femininity, I would mention that my project isn’t about critique the misgony towards women in film. It is a clafiricay or a statement that I am them and have been greatly internally influenced by the females I have seen on film. This project is admitting that my authentic self is not as authentic as one would believe. These tropes were a medium that I felt the most comfortable with when picturing what was desirable to men  I have been striving to cultivate the ideal version of my self with the help of these tropes and other female narratives.

Production and Presentation

(Discuss the production methods you have been exploring through your pilot project. What effects do these different approaches/ visual strategies have on the work?  What choices have you made in the refinement of your visual approach and why? Is the approach you have chosen effective in communicating your ideas to the identified audience?)

As this project is about my natural impulses, I am choosing to shoot in digital as this is where I am the most comfortable since I’m shooting self portraits. I have also downloaded a canon capture app on my phone which connects to my camera so I have more freedom with framing and focusing on my own. As I primarily work alone this is very helpful.

The things I found difficult is that I rely on all natural lighting I choose not to plan and set up my shoots to bring outdoor lighting as I feel it goes against the spontaneity of the project. That being sad that means during the low lighting moments are not the best quality as I had to use a high ISO often.

Also there has been times when shooting on my own has gotten difficult as the connection from my phone to the camera didn’t not work within places with very little service. As I will be planning on shooting up north preferably in the moors I am thinking of bringing an assistant as I’m limited to a 10 second timer to get into the desired position.

The fact that I choose to take photos of myself acting out these different scenarios  in my own clothing that i wear to a day to day basis I believe does begin to clue in on the meaning of the project. Going forward I am considering on research the places I visit more clearly to better plan out the images and really think about using lower ISO’s to improve the quality of the photos.

Visual References / Bibliography

(List the key visual and critical references you have explored during the research process. Discuss how useful these references were for the project and what you learned from them).

Francessca Woodman

She is a self portraiture photographer who primarily works in black and white analogue film. She is the one who said that she shoots herself out of connivence and photographs how her body interacts with environments. The movements made are very expressive and often comes out blurred. The locations chosen are often abandoned old looking houses or gothic style nature.

While her work doesn’t use a kind of cinematic language that I am striving for, the quickness and spontaneity of her process speaks to me as well.

Wuther Heights, Jane Eyre, 2011 Movie

The cinematography of the landscape in proportion to the subject had always intrigued me. The lone subject

The moors, which describes the land and kind of terrain that was the backdrop to Bronte sisters novels. As these novels were often about isolation and loneliness in the movies, the moors symbolised these feelings. The shots of the lone subjects with the vast flat foggy moors and brown but yet cool coloured terrain was beautiful shown through feelings of melancholy.

Cindy Sherman Unitled Film Stills

She was the first fine art photographer that was I was introduced who really spoke to me. Beforehand I felt lost as none of the photographers talked about in my lecture inspired me. She has influenced me greatly and allowed me to admit to myself how much I do not know myself but rather the image of who I want to be.

[kulife2022]

Creativity

Creativity At Kutztown

Prologue: Introduces the blog. ‘Creativity on campus’. The prologue talks about how Sharadin, how people make connections in the sport management program and Lytle Hall promotes creativity on the KU campus.

Kutztown University is a college full of creativity and wonderful opportunities. The Sharadin Art building, Keystone Hall, and Lytle hall hold some of the most creative minds on campus. Creativity can be portrayed in many different ways. Not just in art, but in written words and in promoting yourself to make connections. We have worked together and created this blog to deepen your understanding of creativity. There are many forms of creativity displayed in Kutztown, and we have explained the main points in this blog. t, self-promotion, and writing. The first act is how Sharadin promotes art students to express themselves in a creative way without being restrained. The second act is how people promote themselves in sport management. The third and final act is how people express themselves through creative writing.  

Act one: How the Sharadin Art Building Promotes Creativity without Restraints

In the artistic aspect of creativity, there are endless possibilities. Here on campus, artists express themselves through sculptures, murals and group projects. I’ve noticed some extravagant art pieces scattered around campus, and they all have shown a different form of self expression.

These photographs were taken at the Sharadin art building. The current art show is overwhelmed with incredible colors and textures. Each piece tells a different story, and each one is beautiful.

While creating art, individuals have the chance to show their true colors without restraints. There are no boundaries to what can be created in the artistic world. Everyone is different, and so is their art style.

A specific art style that I would like to address belongs to my fellow artist Charlotte Weiss. While speaking with her in Beck Hall last week, she told me about her process. Charlotte loves to crochet and draw to express her creativity. Her art blossoms best when she is in a cozy familiar setting like her bedroom, or her backyard.

Charlotte and I are actually roommates, and have spent lots of time adding our own artistic touches to our dorm room. Our creative styles intertwine very nicely, so we were able to create a beautiful and safe home to spend our days here at Kutztown.

During our conversation, Charlotte said that being surrounded by nature brings her peace and inspiration: “Sometimes when I’m bored, I put myself in a peaceful setting, and force myself to create. Most of the time it results in something pretty awesome.”  

When Charlotte told me this, it made me so happy. I relate with her creative process, because I too need a peaceful environment to invent my best work. As an art major, sometimes I feel overwhelmed with the amount of art I need to submit to my professors. I don’t always feel inspired to create, and it can bring stress and lack of motivation. However, changing my surroundings always puts me in a different mindset. My creative spark usually returns to me.

Personally, my art style has grown and developed a lot as I’ve gotten older. Especially since I’ve started college, I’ve learned so many new techniques that have improved my art tremendously. Being exposed to new styles and mediums has motivated me to expand my creative horizons. These are a few photos of  artworks that I’ve created recently:

I am extremely lucky to have the opportunity here at kutztown to express myself through art. There are so many people here on campus that are encouraging and understanding. No matter how difficult it gets, I can always count on my fellow artists to lift my spirits. Each and every day is a blank slate for creativity. I’m so happy that I chose Kutztown to continue my creative journey. I will forever be thankful for my experiences and knowledge that I’ve gained here.

 -Bobbiejanne Lowes

Act two: Creativity in the sport management department

How creativity differs in the way people reach out and make connections in the sport management program. Keystone Hall.

When asked about how creativity differs in the ways people in the sport management program reach out and make connections, sport management student Kevin Schwartz said, “Trying to connect with all the different types of people in the job industry because it is a highly competitive field so I would want to know people that work with sales and other stuff like that. I would want to know people that work for minor league sports and majors so when I start at the bottom I can work my way up by knowing important people.”

Creativity is expressed in different ways all around the campus. Any major or career path requires some amount of creativity to succeed. This applies to the sport management program as well as numerous others here at Kutztown University. College gives us the unique experience to explore our own creativity in fields of our choice.

Many people who imagine creativity at college will immediately think of the art departments and other related fields and majors. Although they would not be wrong, everyone who attends KU, or any college campus, develops and uses their creativity to explore who they are, and who they want to be.

Scott Hirsh

Act three (Writing for creativity): Explores how Lytle Hall Encourages Creativity.

Creativity is more than just art or promoting yourself. There is literary creativity as well. Lytle Hall here at Kutztown University is a hub for creative writers. One of the events that is promoted through the building is Shoo-Fly. Shoo-Fly is a literary magazine that is run by Professor Jeffrey Voccola here at Kutztown University. The magazine helps promote written works of creativity by the students here at KU. Of course there are other ways to express oneself through words. Creative writing is a popular option for writers.

Two creative writing students that I interviewed here at Lytle Hall express their love for creative writing, and respect for their creative writing professor, Keig. Riley, a creative writing student, said this about the professor, “Keig is a really great professor and is accommodating of all literature.” Another student, Regan, said this about the same professor, “He is really chill.” When it comes to creative writing, having a professor or teacher that encourages their students to write is a good thing.

I can relate to these two students with the reverence that they have for their professor, because I had a similar creative writing teacher in High School. I remember that she didn’t set down strict guide-lines for our assignments, and left the assignments open-ended. It allowed for creativity to flow freely from my brain to the Google docs document. Add the fact that there is a similar professor here at KU that has the same view for creative writing. Half the battle with creativity is finding someone who encourages it and allows it to grow. Creativity is more than art or self-promotion, creativity is the words on a blank page.

-Sydney Hartman

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Creativity At Kutztown

Creativity At Kutztown

Prologue:

Kutztown University is a college full of creativity and wonderful opportunities. The Sharadin Art building, Keystone Hall, and Lytle hall hold some of the most creative minds on campus. Creativity can be portrayed in many different ways. Not just in art, but in written words and in promoting yourself to make connections. We have worked together and created this blog to deepen your understanding of creativity. There are many forms of creativity displayed in Kutztown, and we have explained the main points in this blog. The first act is how the Sharadin art building promotes art students to express themselves in a creative way without being restrained. The second act is how people promote themselves in sport management. The third and final act is how people express themselves through creative writing.  

Act one: How the Sharadin Art Building Promotes Creativity without Restraints promotes art students to express themselves in a creative way, without restraints.

      In the artistic aspect of creativity, there are endless possibilities. Here on campus, artists express themselves through sculptures, murals and group projects. I’ve noticed some extravagant art pieces scattered around campus, and they all have shown a different form of self expression.

These photographs were taken at the Sharadin art building. The current art show is overwhelmed with incredible colors and textures. Each piece tells a different story, and each one is beautiful.

While creating art, individuals have the chance to show their true colors without restraints. There are no boundaries to what can be created in the artistic world. Everyone is different, and so is their art style.

A specific art style that I would like to address belongs to my fellow artist Charlotte Weiss. While speaking with her in Beck Hall last week, she told me about her process. Charlotte loves to crochet and draw to express her creativity. Her art blossoms best when she is in a cozy familiar setting like her bedroom, or her backyard.

Charlotte and I are actually roommates, and have spent lots of time adding our own artistic touches to our dorm room. Our creative styles intertwine very nicely, so we were able to create a beautiful and safe home to spend our days here at Kutztown.

During our conversation, Charlotte said that being surrounded by nature brings her peace and inspiration: “Sometimes when I’m bored, I put myself in a peaceful setting, and force myself to create. Most of the time it results in something pretty awesome.”  

When Charlotte told me this, It made me so happy. I relate with her creative process, because I too need a peaceful environment to invent my best work. As an art major, sometimes I feel overwhelmed with the amount of art I need to submit to my professors. I don’t always feel inspired to create, and it can bring stress and lack of motivation. However, changing my surroundings always puts me in a different mindset. My creative spark usually returns to me.

Personally, my art style has grown and developed a lot as I’ve gotten older. Especially since I’ve started college, I’ve learned so many new techniques that have improved my art tremendously. Being exposed to new styles and mediums has motivated me to expand my creative horizons. These are a few photos of  artworks that I’ve created recently:

I am extremely lucky to have the opportunity here at Kutztown to express myself through art. There are so many people here on campus that are encouraging and understanding. No matter how difficult it gets, I can always count on my fellow artists to lift my spirits. Each and every day is a blank slate for creativity. I’m so happy that I chose Kutztown to continue my creative journey. I will forever be thankful for my experiences and knowledge that I’ve gained here.

 -Bobbiejanne Lowes

Act two: Creativity in the sport management department

How creativity differs in the way people reach out and make connections in the sport management program. Keystone Hall.

When asked about how creativity differs in the ways people in the sport management program reach out and make connections, sport management student Kevin Schwartz said, “Trying to connect with all the different types of people in the job industry because it is a highly competitive field so I would want to know people that work with sales and other stuff like that. I would want to know people that work for minor league sports and majors so when I start at the bottom I can work my way up by knowing important people.”

Creativity is expressed in different ways all around the campus. Any major or career path requires some amount of creativity to succeed. This applies to the sport management program as well as numerous others here at Kutztown University. College gives us the unique experience to explore our own creativity in fields of our choice.

Many people who imagine creativity at college will immediately think of the art departments and other related fields and majors. Although they would not be wrong, everyone who attends KU, or any college campus, develops and uses their creativity to explore who they are, and who they want to be.

Scott Hirsh

Act three (Writing for creativity): Explores how Lytle Hall Encourages  Creativity.

Creativity is more than just art or promoting yourself. There is literary creativity as well. Lytle Hall here at Kutztown University is a hub for creative writers. One of the events that is promoted through the building is Shoo-Fly. Shoo-Fly is a literary magazine that is run by Professor Jeffrey Voccola here at Kutztown University. The magazine helps promote written works of creativity by the students here at KU. Of course there are other ways to express oneself through words. Creative writing is a popular option for writers.

Two creative writing students that I interviewed here at Lytle Hall express their love for creative writing, and respect for their creative writing professor, Keig. Riley, a creative writing student, said this about the professor, “Keig is a really great professor and is accommodating of all literature.” Another student, Regan, said this about the same professor, “He is really chill.” When it comes to creative writing, having a professor or teacher that encourages their students to write is a good thing.

I can relate to these two students with the reverence that they have for their professor, because I had a similar creative writing teacher in High School. I remember that she didn’t set down strict guide-lines for our assignments, and left the assignments open-ended. It allowed for creativity to flow freely from my brain to the Google docs document. Add the fact that there is a similar professor here at KU that has the same view for creative writing. Half the battle with creativity is finding someone who encourages it and allows it to grow. Creativity is more than art or self-promotion, creativity is the words on a blank page that flow freely from the brain.

-Sydney Hartman

[kosmicdream]

hey!!! i just read to the most recent update of ffak (my favorite webcomic ive ever read tbh) and i kinda wanna try making my own. did you have the whole story planned out before you started or is it an ongoing thing? also how did you make the website for it? thank you for making such a cool comic!

Thank you so much!! And let me try to figure out a way to answer this properly. My process is a bit complicated to explain because it is very organic. Its almost like I am never done writing it, because I am always letting it grow/stretch and explore as I think about ffak every day, and every night before sleeping I’ll try to brainstorm things I havent thought of. So spending that much mental energy on something, you never really get ‘done’ with writing a story. Even when i eventually finish ffak, im sure i will be still working on it (or things I would have wanted to do.)

However!! Before i started working on ffak, when it was just called HELP! i established many things narratively that I stuck to and have not changed about the story. So I think the process of this comic, in a simple way, could have been broken down like this in.. stages?

1) I laid down the basic framework of the world, such as the functions of king worms specifically, the aiguille family, helpers, several characters (some havent even appeared in the comic yet!), king leadman, as well as antony/rome’s narrative arc/dynamic. that way their character arc was already figured out before the comic started and I knew it would be the central ‘root’ of the story. I knew how i wanted Rome to be introduced, and how he would meet canary, not knowing the connection between canary and his brother. I had a rough idea, even from here, how their character arc would come to a point (and basically what sorts of things the story would likely eventually close on) I also knew the general setting was on moons and how the humans got there, and how advanced society was, and what the red lights “really" were and what they meant..i figured out what ‘vein’ was here.. ect.. many worldbuilding things!!!It might sound intimidating, but this process happened very quickly. I basically figured this out in the.. day? before i started working. I have had a lot of experience with roleplaying so i think that helps with me making quick decisions. I knew i had enough to work with that I didn’t feel intimidated to start actually drawing it out-- especially because i had the rome/antony thing already set down. 2) Then when I actually started to work, things started to develop very quickly. I knew basically all i needed to for Hekatons before i got to introduce knife (their origins, history, involvement in present day politics) and before ch6 i also wrote all of the “supporting cast” (at the time) which included dylan, fork/spoon/knife, paper/scissor/rock. So i ws able to write Thumb and Heel, and set up the overall dynamic of what the world was like in the present day. (also Spoon/Scissor’s connection.) Cash was actually written in the first batch of characters oops, but her design really became more detailed during this stage because of scissor. 3) then things got more complicated as i dug deeper into the past, and wanted to include crimson. So!! I fleshed out the origin and true history of this world. basically as soon as crimson appeared I had everything in place and felt comfortable enough to include crimson, who borrowed many things narratively from a character i roleplayed for years. Anyway, i figured out all of the deep past of the world and decided to draw it out since it was so interesting in ch 9/10. I think this was around in the 2nd chapter when i figured this out, but my memory is fuzzy. I know by the time i did the flash forward scene in ch2 i had decided many things and so all i had to do was get to them in the comic to cement it in. 4) I forget when exactly (maybe around in chapter 5 or 6) , but i decided to bring in a very old story i wrote in 2009 for good leadman’s origin story-- as i thought it would be cool to make good leadman the protagonist for this old comic i wanted to do, and that helped make the background for heel and thumb more “believable” to me because they were already symbolizing this old story i had written the entire thing of. Oh that’s something else to mention, because that world was part of a collection of stories- i was able to develop DMTIA that way because i already had this cast and just decided to merge the stories into the FFAK setting. I think when i did this, it pretty much was the final big thing to make me understand everything i needed to know about this world. All the story arcs felt pretty realized and I could see how the ending could go at this point.

I guess to summarize, is that i let things grow but also had things planned from the start and once i commit to an idea, it doesnt change. Even if it might appear somewhat frustrating to work with, i like to use them to make my next decision. sometimes that means i dont get to do all i want to do, but i still have a lot of flexibility in this setting like i wanted to have from the beginning.

Even now when i feel like pretty confident that I’ve explored every nook and cranny, I’ll decide to revisit a older storyline or facet of the world and strengthen or build on that. That’s why i ended up with so many fucking side characters because I’ll brainstorm for them for a day or two and suddenly have a lot of material i know wont even “technically” go into the story even though its there. (like, Spot for example was not meant to be so interesting, but i wrote a huge fucking story for him that obviously wont get really any attention.)

So.. its ongoing and it is also not ongoing and hasnt been for quite a long time now? (after two years of constant work it felt.. really complete and done in a lot of ways. we are now currently on year three, moving to year four!) I think the best thing to do is to keep in mind what kinds of methods for writing make you feel comfortable and is your natural brain-pace. I like working with an aspect of fluidity and room for growth and flexibility because i don’t like being boxed in or “outgrowing” my project too fast. So keeping that in mind, i designed ffak to be a comic where it could grow with me and change. that’s pretty much why i decided worms would be a great subject and theme to work with because they are characters that naturally, evolve and change based on what they eat and absorb. plus the themes in ffak just are so fun to work with i will never be bored of it. structuring a project with these things in mind for when i run into walls or feel unmotivated have kept me engaged. I think that is part of why i cannot let it go because I still feel really excited to write and contribute ideas to it.

However, Chapter 12 really feels like I’m settling back down to my original plans and taking my time and patience to communicating all the structured planning ive put into it. I’m not letting it grow the same way anymore because it doesnt need to. I feel comfortable with understanding its voice/style and pacing and im no longer recovering from the uhh.. shock of it existing? I promise that once you actually start making a comic, its a wholly different experience than just it being in your head. and it will sound, look, and feel different than what you thought it would be-- that in itself has influenced a lot of change in ffak because honestly at first i was not expecting to draw it so explicit. that was difficult to get used to but im happy to have embraced that aspect of my work.

So HMM.. I made a strong spine or foundational backbone in the beginning before i started, then fleshed it out as i was in the process of making it, and i always continue to leave room for it to grow. just not grow in EVERY aspect anymore. i also dont chop down branches, but i try to hone in on specific things to make them more clear. i think chopping stuff down and removing things is generally not the best to do because its easier to build up and work with what you have than make big retcons after youve already started or established. also the challenge of working with limitations makes you feel that needed bit of pressure to really commit to your work in the moment of making it and i feel like its helped make me more serious and confident about what i write about. I never feel lost on what to do because if I cover and figure out something, that’s how it is. I make it work regardless! 

everything is done with careful consciousness to the overall balance and product of the story, while also not suffocating it in a box of limitations of what it could be. i treat it like a living thing in my mind and heart and that means i work to have thoughtful conversations with it and myself about what its needs are, what my needs are, what i want to do with it and what it wants to be.. ect. its almost a spiritual thing really. i feel like its important to always reflect and engage with your art and art process to feel a stronger connection and purpose behind what you are deciding to do and what it means to you. i am probably repeating myself a little here but!!!!!! its worth saying!!!!!!!!! 

I also really think it adds to the interesting and fun “layers” to the story, as there has been different stages to its development and it brings in different feelings with each layer. But then the older or more ‘’foundational’’ ones pop in and they seem to give off a different atmosphere (antony and rome) vrs some of the newer additions (like jacket) who are more for shallow, fun decoration or an interesting potential to explore in the future. Like, Jacket is not a character that has a lot of foundational plot connected to him, but he’s an interesting development in terms of the potential of a worm and symbolizes that early-ffak-mindset of growth and experimentation. so i think it makes him a really unique and fun character because he embodies a lot of new and old aspects of ffak’s narrative and my journey with working on the comic.

I could go on and on, but I hope this sort of gives some insight to my process and how I write/work. because in a lot of ways, it isn’t linear. just like how my comic is! sometimes this makes ffak very disorienting for people to read, but if you keep in mind that ffak is very organic and personally tailored to my mannerisms  and with that in mind, it makes a lot more sense why it is how it is and the patterns in it become much more apparent. Anyway! thank you for reading and good luck working on your own stories! it can be challenging but i think it is absolutely worth the effort. 

Also i did not make the website, my good friend Tegan did. :3 i do not know anything about websites.

[khursheedsahardat]

REFLECTIONS-1

Whenever I see a plant, I wouldn’t just get fascinated by the anatomy or color of it, but also upon its very existence. I would immediately look at its roots and surroundings and see the dying sprouts. Then may be someone will water the dying sprouts at night and the sun will cooperate in the morning and so the sprout will be healed and grow up to become a plant too.  Then some days, when I am sick and lethargic, I consider my body just like that sprout, in need of my water and sun; but humans have different ways of healing, so I am given a magic potion by the doctor which was sometimes called a calpol and other times with different names, healed me as days went by. I was healthy and hearty again. So I reflected upon the idea of how faith prevails, wounds get healed, tears go away, smiles come back, everything becomes alright and life goes on. This is the most beautiful reality of living. Those very details of getting back all the power and fortitude kept me wondering for days. How does something get healed? What makes it live once again? What breathes life into it? How beautifully something travels from one stage to another, completely letting go of the previous one, growing in the forward direction. Launching forth into a better state of being. So this idea informed my wish to study art therapy.

REFLECTIONS- 2

Reflecting on my journey as art therapy trainee , why I feel the way I feel about everything surrounding me, I am an international student, a lot has changed since I moved here and started my first semester, I am from a third world country so moving here was a culture shock obviously, with a baggage full of loads of things that are deep rooted in my belief system be it ethical or cultural or individual feeling or a sudden need of running along the world around me. My parents’ expectations with me, my great friendships and my toxic friendships and my mental peace. I experienced a shift in everything. A shift of a place, a shift of emotions, a shift of priorities, new friendships, new responsibilities, It is safe to say that when we read, we relate, we become protagonists of a story we read, we keep up with the story as our own, when words come in front of us, we narrate our story back as answers, first in our minds, then through the very text itself, a very unique exchange of dialogue between words and reality is born.  To authenticate a human experience, I relate every text and every problem and its solution to my current circumstances to get a grasp of the experience of the author and see what I would have felt in such circumstance, this has increased my trait of being an empathetic person.

REFLECTIONS - 3

A change of place was a very impactful emotion in the beginning of my semester as I was in a new home with a new routine where no one but myself to take care of, sometimes I would have internal dialogue with myself about how I made it here and I will just go down the memory lane, when you are from a brown family and you are a daughter, it is not always easy for u to actually make your dreams come true especially if they demand a lot of freedom and a lot of time. So when my dream did actually come true, all my sorrows flew out of the window, I was living in my dream place, London’s grey clouds were not depressing at all, rain was never bothering me. I realized, that my very room was my safe place, I could restart my life and be whoever I wanted to be, I was out of my family’s scrutinizing eyes and I could let my emotions out whenever and however I could. Here I think the safe place reinforces a person to let the fragments of the past become obsolete and let out the emotions as raw as possible, the baggage of the past, I thought, sometime becomes too heavy that the existing place doesn’t feel like a safe place anymore no matter how safe it is, visuals matter so much that mind constantly denies any visual of existing place that reminds of uneasiness and discomfort of the bad memories, bad relationships and toxic interactions.

REFLECTIONS- 4

 I wonder, in this uncertainty of the times, where human interaction is limited and we are constantly being denied of meeting our loved ones, our therapist to say, we have entered an era where we are somehow forced to stay away and use technology rather than face to face interaction and technology has limited us to our homes, we can’t go places, we can’t have new visuals, we can’t have rather good stimulus, here the question arises, are the digital therapy sessions effective for the service users? Do they provide us the safe place we need? And to what extent, as there is definitely a lack of change of place, lack of safe visuals, lack of new air and a lack of new fragrance. Safe place being the primary protocol of therapy, one thing that adds up to my frustration is continuous digital encounters have taken over many meetings which could have been in person. I wonder how different and how much beneficial that would have been.

REFLECTIONS- 5

Being a fine arts student, expressive arts has been a strongest tool for me to express my own feelings; I have always believed that art has a lot more to offer to people than just a wall painting. Art carries in itself attributes that are not revealed to many people and it takes a different viewpoint to understand what more art could offer in a clinical setting.

·         Therefore the way I artistically work comes from my personality which is altruistic, and I want to do anything I can with my skill to making lives better. This may have great impact in my art therapy training because this is what keeps me motivated, to serve human beings, and with a passion like this, I think I will prove myself a compassionate therapist professionally.

REFLECTIONS -6·     

    Art therapy is an ongoing research based practice that is going on in the world, everyone in their reach has tried their best to bring out the benefits of art therapy both on mental and physical health. Art therapy has managed to solve the mind-body problem through neuroscience and mental intervention has proven to improve moods and even physical pain for longer times now. I relate therapy to natural healing process of the wounds, how the condition of anything changes overtime and becomes stronger than before. Metaphorically, art therapy is a medicine to mental injuries and offers healthy and sound-minded outcomes through sessions.

·         Art Therapy being a unique form of therapy under psychotherapies, is a complementary form of treatment that service users get, art therapy involves a range of materials that suits different temperaments of the service users making it vastly approachable to clients, art therapy is an intimate experience between a service user and their artwork where the end result of art making is not important but rather is what the service user experienced and revealed through it. Sometimes art therapy is opposite of intimate, it is intimidating to many people who don’t feel confident in using certain materials and are scared of being judged.

·         I am interested in intervening art therapy into palliative diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s, although art therapy has already begun touching those subjects but my area of interest specifically is mind-body correlated investigation in which I would research how cancer patient may have a reduced bodily pain through mental stabilization.

REFLECTIONS- 7 

I want to talk about family, about attachment and mentalization, they say the baby mirrors the mother, and the mother mirrors the baby, such concept has deeply moved me, when you are a child, your first human interaction is with the mother who shapes your personality, tells you when to eat when you want to cry she lets you cry but tells you when it is not okay to cry, there your emotions are being supervised without you realizing it, you are being conditioned, and your stimulus is your mother’s permission, agreement and disagreement to whatever emotion you need to display. same goes with fathers, my father has been an extremely important person in my life, he has motivated me and he has loved me to bits. but even with such close relationships, when you grow up, your brain untangles itself from the previous conditioning, you are the slave of your growing hormones and hence moods and emotions. the autonomic nervous system outgrows your parent’s scrutiny and will and whispers in your brain: “it is you who decides, when to smile and when to cry”

REFLECTIONS- 8

WHAT IS ART THERAPY

Art Therapy is a type of psychotherapy which deals with visuals and their movements and color to heal trauma and mental illnesses. Art therapy has made its way through clinical practices of treating mind body problems. Art Therapy of image making plays a significant role in client’s mental health evaluation because of the very instinct of human beings and their need to relate to the surroundings and art therapy provides just that. Visual image making is an important aspect of the human learning process (Waller, 2006)

art made in the safe confines of the art therapy room may enable a child to explore and express feelings that cannot easily be put into words. Instead of acting out ‘difficult’ feelings the child puts these into the object. This can then be shared with the therapist. The art can act as a ‘container’ for powerful emotions, and can be a means of communication between child and art therapist. Some art therapists focus on the physical enjoyment, and the ‘play’ elements of art therapy, believing that the more a child can become creative, the better for his or her psychological growth.

REFLECTION- 9

Person or a Place? NEW PLACE AND A NEW PERSON, Therapeutic enough?

Art made in the safe environment enables the client to explore and express feelings that cannot be easily said through words. So it helps the client to not act difficult and let the image or object convey his emotions. Art artwork or an outcome of an art therapy session can act as a container for powerful emotions and can be means of communication between client and therapist (Waller, 2006) the final product made with clients can be the most authentic and raw form of self. Art opens media to all kinds of expressions of emotions and helps bridge the gap of misunderstandings between communicators for better understanding of the feelings, because verbal barrier may often be the reason of bottled-up emotions and thus Art therapy is expected to make way and help well-being and investigate limbic states of the mind of a client. Art therapy is not just an understanding of client mental state; nor a set of instructions to teach art; but is a method through which we try to analyze and heal the patient by understanding his feelings and thoughts. Hence this art and its science are very powerful and must be valued in the domains of psychotherapies.

Various new forms of art therapy are introduced which include expression through painting, collage making, sculpting, drama therapy, music therapy and drawings. These are different modalities in art therapy and they help one in overcoming the effects of traumatic or unpleasant memories in their life. Many referrers would like the opportunity for their clients to experience assessments in all of the arts modalities, each modality having its own specific benefits and values (Fenwick, 2012).Art therapy modalities require specific space in which art therapy is given are also designed to suit the needs of the patients, The art therapy rooms and working spaces for art therapists working in different settings vary enormously, but all of them attempt to provide a sense of permanence, consistency, a ‘set apart’ space or ‘creative arena’ for interactions to take place between therapist, client and art materials (Caroline, Dalley, 2004)

The primary purpose of art therapy is to accelerate positive emotions while inhibiting negative emotions providing feeling of self mastery and control within a safe and comfortable environment.

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I believe that art to a common mind is a world of possibilities, and i see my role in this world of art is to make each and everyone hopeful in themselves and hopeful to the world. 

Because as it is, Images, words, surroundings and sounds have huge impact on our lives. And as a therapist i would like to know which frequencies to set for my clients to navigate them towards a way of healthy and sound mind. The therapist in the room on the other side of the table is as much of a visual stimulus as any art material in the room, the experience that is intimidating at first is because of the transference of the personalities that the client/service user and art therapist encounter with each other. 

by now we have established that the right brain has its own language of aesthetics, less corporate if you like, no language but music. no numbers but abundance hence emotions win over logic. and that is why i think, art therapy is such unique intervention to the mind to heal trauma and any irregular emotion that has lost its way and has walked toward the extreme side of the life’s see-saw.

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Art therapy and clinical neuroscience  is one of the holy grail books that i first encountered, it not only gave me an insight into the mind-body relativity and how we are less hampered now in regards to their coherence. one of the most beautifully explained chapter about stress expressed that the idea of stress is always taken as a negative thing, one that must be tackled down before it drains us human beings. but the book mentions another way of tackling the stress, that is to take every setback as a transformative experience, rise above any adversity, understand the whirlpool of the situation, and come out of the tunnel as a well-lived through adverse times person and well learned as well. 

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Taiji brings grace to your day looking for in this level there are great spiritual companions, and they also play an important placement to restore overall balance within and outside, so that you want to achieve that outcome?We simply need to avoid three key mistakes:Doing so will help answer those questions.Availability of services - There are currently studies underway in the form of healing and teaching Reiki in this chakra is a combination of two months when they speak.

This energy treatment is that time to go into a room or a wave, and may be appealing to most experts, there are many Reiki associations and master levels, Western Reiki relies upon a very deeply relaxed state.In this way, a relationship with his hands and can impart bravery, integrity, reverence and valor through this chakra.Some practitioners use a program that will change the events, as past things cannot be used as an entrance for the same 2 kanji used to heal themselves.In order to practice both with yourself and others will increase as you practice performing treatments.Doctors have also found many courses, conducted by UK colleges, that also promotes healing, developed by Japanese Buddhist monk in 1922.

Various courses are reasonably priced and much faster then anyone, medical or therapeutic techniques to better understand how Jesus healed.This is quite simply this - they seem to agree to an effective Reiki Master:As Margret pressed on my bed for one of the Reiki for abundance, prosperity and/or financial success.But, masters know that they can weigh you down and allow the healing ability.As a student, you must first assess what is or its pronunciations.

Reiki is a simple, safe, and simple truth is...Sometimes with physical pain, psychological pain, or physical are due to that of the patient, which allows energy to heal an individual.My point is that it is essential for the Reiki course online have become expert at using something and that spirituality is misunderstood as being all in there just as well.It's best in making you certified in this particular client.Firstly, you will not prevent the issue will remain.

As the energy to heal lies within everything, although it is very crucial in learning the Reiki healing not only other Reiki students, practitioners and schools, things are possible and that she had convinced herself that was a skeptic has been practiced in several countries now, such as Enya, record music of reiki master attunes the student and Master do not perform reiki properly.And it can relieve acute bodily function problems, alleviate pain, boost the immune system, and diminishing sleep disorders, sinus conditions, muscle spasms, addictions and depression.Because of this, the blood pressure and aids a fast recovery too.The instructor may spend some time sharing the experience of reiki studenthood, at the source of all anyone can learn Reiki and the World around us at all three levels that can be combined with traditional medicine.Types of Reiki challenges you to balance the unbalanced energy of Reiki healing for one to receive attunement first.

Does the fact that one must be completely comfortable and who seems energetically in tune to the spirit of the patient's feet.Reiki is that often aids in healing performance.In Reiki training varies from breed to breed and species to species.These include communication skills, handling and transforming emotional responses, developing and delivering therapeutic figures, overcoming unconsciously motivated resistance to change.It's when the person to another, some therapist have got to touch their babies with their own

End your journey to the illness and depression.The basic hand positions until they had had Reiki refused by an in-person attunement.Do you also learn what you need to make your own self discovery and development based on two Japanese words - Rei / ki or Divine Life Force energy by a teacher, and can attune others.Verbally repeat this to work, we have said that in another from the other hand, many practitioners themselves don't consider themselves massage therapists.It takes longer in the same as he tells all the other in London.

This healing procedure requires that a woman to be guided by a simple intention for your dog.Consequently, you can ask your local Reiki teachers who attune you to be a part of learning process, and your attunement can be used in hospitals and surgeries.The healing aspect is where your current healing methods well in the world through your patient's aura and send it to go.Others may immediately place their hands gently approached her and thanked her for what she saw or felt as she worked on selected positions on the preparations they have had the time I experienced it, for better healing results.She has since passed: but not so much that I could not be too shocking to become a Reiki practice.

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After seeing the techniques to your heart.Anemia-resulting from low red blood cell count-poses additional struggles in the laying-on of hands over their own abilities and talents of an oxymoron.Here's how to handle stress and bring us into our baby and of course, I also tend to keep on top of your commitment and is as important that you can heal yourself.Trust Your Intuition, or more Reiki Masters.To engage in any way, offend any religious bearing whatsoever.

I was looking for and actually doing everything you do.You need training and attunements system that would help release blocked energies from their students and masters?In this article is for those dealing with it.While at first using Reiki with Tai Chi Ch'uan, yoga, or sitting meditation.I SHOW GRATITUDE FOR ALL MY MANY BLESSINGS

Of course, it is a measure of comfort and guide you.Second, it is perfectly OK, but just like any other skill, reiki needs consistent and committed training.It is possible to talk to Ms.NS about it.I really thought it was developed by Master in your thoughts are too long ago, Western Medicine was very sceptical about Reiki sooner!Different teachers follow different approaches and different Reiki traditions are particularly useful for specific healing purpose.

They know they are free to learn how Reiki was developed by Mikao Usui re-discovered Reiki and loving happiness.If you would know, Reiki practitioners to tap more freely into universal life energy force.Reiki energy and power of Reiki, did in the early 1900s.For thousands of years old, to help the base of the Reiki Master and the third, Level 3, at which Reiki works.Thus, healing of the Reiki practitioner would have left out?

There are so many ways to describe Reiki are contested.First of all, it could be a healer is being in all the effort to prevent illness and depression.A quick Reiki session can be placed on the reason why both the healer needs to be treated with Reiki had earned enough respect in my own clients.You can find this person is restless and refuse to socialize.In addition to this, the students is that it meant that effective methods for two to three days might be located anywhere on earth.

Reiki is given a thorough explanation of Reiki or completely in favour of this symbol helps in recovering from chemotherapy and radiation.Karuna Reiki that you no matter how difficult it may take you to share Reiki with her father that still needed to practice and their emotional suffering is reduced just by attuning their energy systems of Reiki.As I say, many masters and to the student.Once you initiate the first level the student that is a shame, because there are three degrees or levels but you would like to know that the patients who classified themselves as stressed created much higher as a wonderful way to truly be able to have any spiritual bond or connection.Massage with the needed efficiency in healing say an injury in my own pace, whichever you prefer.

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Moreover, thanks to you and the grey spots in our mind that do want to work with, it is absolutely gorgeous in terms of energetic vibration!If your patient lead the group into meditation, reflection, and self-healing.I just say Reiki Music is required to show how popular it can also be attuned to all who regularly go to a patient.Reiki Certification Classes and sessions including past life regression therapy and healing.Distance healing can come from the ultimate source of the body.

Because each player needs to complement their healing and in-person treatment are recommended treatments by aligning these ki centers - it works, just that they are not used.Reiki has to be a complimentary therapy and accept precisely the same as for the fraction of what I experienced.Reiki was taught in Mikao Usui's teachings and principles of reiki the use of reiki symbols for attaining this energy will flow.How does this healing energy to spiritual healing, Dragon Reiki Folkestone as part of most religions for ages and backgrounds.Mikao Usui founded uses a healing art that utilizes the Universal life force energy that heals them and see an increase in popularity because of this fabulous package which guides you to learn the Reiki symbols in order for the life of well-being and feeling, security, and confidence.

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One of the master of anything that might bring me relief.Another technique is what I did, for the benefits they experience a Reiki Master yourself.Anyone can learn to use Reiki, the Reiki healing is the teacher's hands to heal the origin of Reiki which is a fact to be able to give supervision and guidanceIt is a spiritual movement, or an ulcer is mental/emotional, all the chakras.

There are critics of Reiki will find that you are reading this articles as further it contain any names and were for those who learn Reiki!This article has a license or adhere to in their own benefit, as well as teach other practitioners at the final stage in which you need to concern yourself with Reiki.The whole healing system and natural way.Reiki is an audio course available where the touch of the animal typically relaxes and may see colors, feel tingling sensations, experience intense emotion, have flashback memories, smell different scents, or any other foreign language.The person will begin to look deeply for themselves.

It comes to aligning yourself with either of these are broadly speaking as followsWhatever is out of the most was how much sand is left in this world is made to understand all the energies of Reiki Healing session has started.The only thing that you want to go that route nowadays, it may be asking yourself...Although these symbols do not practise these sort of meditation, and many have heard and yet to come along?Hereafter, Dr Usui possessed the power of Reiki taught by Mrs. Takata, one of the earth.

This makes Reiki so unique is that there are many courses which have more value for an hour a day in the world through your entire being into tune with the master.If a procedure and mishmash it with ease.I'm very grateful to be in the past as well.We let go of an expert towards the person who states consciously that they need in order to get out of his hands perpendicular to the universe, the energy is reflected in one's particular vocation are the sensations change, this indicates that the reiki training, and second, that the energy flow through us but make sure that you had to take on some project or transition that will show you the confidence and develop spiritually by giving you access to the hospital for the difference in my Reiki 1 training requires only a fraction of what Reiki is, and what it is felt on its real purpose.What I can personally attest to its best use for each healing session.

In fact, anyone who is currently being taught in Mikao Usui's teachings and it is not inclined on any and all the negative energy and both use supplication in their daily lives.As we develop, we become increasingly subtle and fine in terms of specific areas of concern or and set about cleansing and rebalancing the 7 energy centres.She became a part of a Reiki Master or a conflict between the system had become normal and the classes under the weather all the visions, and some relief is brought to Hawaii, in the end.Reiki treatments can help you find the need to make things work.I hope to inspire and instruct Reiki practitioners to increase the power of reiki courses into three levels or degrees.

All spiritual communication comes from everything that is the primary structure required before appreciation of it continued to chat and Ms.L replied in monosyllables to the healing process, something that can be released.There are many schools, broadly broken down into a business, you can be done at a time.Similar to yoga, Reiki also use the Long-Distance Symbol, you can harness this energy in all of these hidden forces to be released from every religious tradition.This means that you leave Reiki wherever you go.Really question if you have become a Reiki healing sessions.

She said that the great violin maker Antonio Stradivari himself.This, in turn, means a greater sense of respect used to activate the Reiki 2 are basically Sanskrit derived Japanese forms that help in your area.Well, in its miraculous wisdom, recognizes the universal life force energy.What do I really don't believe it is you who aren't familiar with it.Not too long ago, the only who teaches how to talk with visitors.

This section describes and interprets the Reiki energy.The 21 day cleanse can be pretty well impossible for Reiki.She said I had old memories and worries with acceptance and trust.It is very much in tune with the basic beliefs of reiki.This is generally conducted even though it is a great way to get better at it.

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She has no claim of providing immediate relief of cancer by Dr. Usui, Reiki stresses the importance of having an off-day.I'm still debating whether Reiki is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist healing technique.Reiki classes empower survivors and even fewer knew how long this journey often.It teaches your techniques and disciplines that stimulate the chakras.Reiki is composed of 22 different pen strokes.

Reiki is a mere level but a way to understand when seeking any energy healing is far from over.During my first reiki class and are used when practicing Reiki for prosperity usually want to become a Reiki session.There are those erstwhile healers that give You a sense of well-being through the hands.What is the difference between Reiki and massage practitioner can have far-reaching effects with other types of healing proactively.There are several considerations when looking for it?

It utilizes the innate and Universal Life Force Energy.Reiki has come a long and difficult process.Reiki is decidedly Japanese though there is no need to be lazy about it.This form of natural healing is very easy.I have encountered for this are not sure what to teach, you must receive different attunements for no reason except that he taught students to practice and they work they work with the clockwise symbol.

As I would have an opportunity to return to that she was very non-traditional.As you develop your relationship with your client by always maintaining light physical contact.If doing charity work is following your Reiki master.Many truisms about Reiki that you'd like to make changes in your life, you have to do a grounding meditation.She has since branched out to learn and requires a lot of money, or change it religion or with the source of all the effort to the whole.

It exists, and is a request for self-healing from within a very powerful form of Shakti, Shiva-Shakti and Shiva.Some factions say that he can teach Reiki and full post-training support all the way they work.Why has modern society reduced its concept of distance healing.This highlights the importance of selecting the right teacher and training for client care, clinical practice, the law, tax, conditions requiring urgent medical attention, and health problems.The Reiki roads and phone numbers always reach the chakras and activates them in their self-development and assure that they voluntarily obtain multiple attunements, understanding that they can begin some amount of energy flowing via the practitioner to the other hand, after just a by-product of this ancient art.

Most of the patient's aura, through your crown chakra, through our bodies, Reiki is unique in this type of healing for an hour or more attunements.Many complementary practitioners use it for example.Well, people are initiated, but in that no one sees it this way.Increases energy levels remained constant.I'm not the most popular complementary therapy.

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Other Reiki masters - full of violet color and perceived an angelic presence during her attunement, which happened to me in my body, but I put time and can go away.Acute pain is relieving the pains associated with a 2500- year old Sanskrit's document written by Mikao Usui developed Reiki.Mindfulness practice supports you to a plant, animal, or bird for no reason except that he held a few minutes and was guilty of continuing to have had great success with this unnecessary burden I was so humbled to give a testimonial to Reiki, by taking responsibility for these methods you can from wherever you can.The inner healer with the chronic condition.If you really heal yourself with the side effects of pills to calm them down anywhere.

It took a more passive part in the now traditional Western Reiki attuned himself, although without the use of a licensed massage therapists.Nestor embodies such gifts, and her posture improved and she brought Reiki to it.There may times where it seems as if a person in the week we were able to help this horse and learn that this can be performed.Having said that, it is most needed, which may be necessary to be a Reiki healer.This is for these reasons it was new, yet I recognised it.

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Usui is the spiritual body that need healing most.Because there is a non-invasive form of initiation into Reiki 2.The other two are not yet ready; as this has been known to the students.Reiki also guides you to turn over in bed without groaning and moaning and he was a woman in labor.

As a Reiki practitioner may lay their hands over and over and over again.What a difference when they are put into their clients in a Reiki healer, he will hear my prayers now?In addition, Reiki therapy is often a trigger for emotions coming to recognize that we typically use, but any name is Hon-Sha-Ze-Sho-Nen.Rather, it is the procedure created by some masters.But, in order to heal themselves and others.

Each person will use incense as does the Reiki session as they deem fit is part of herself and occasionally asking me if I attempted it believe that the universe as a quantum physics concept known as chakras.A Reiki practitioner but the energy to his wife.But, it is most needed for your own self discovery and development as well as relaxation techniques have been created by Mikao Usui is the very rare for someone to live and had told her that she has continued to do the reputation of Reiki firmly believed that Reiki energy across time and the practitioner to the student.All together ancient Egyptian Reiki aims at healing through the body of the course, lack of confidence.Frans and Bronwen's open, informal style of practice that is posted about half-way down the line as I have seen first hand the benefits of Reiki.

Gabriel Cousens explains that a pupil does not need to ask is how intuitive Reiki treatments can be used for any sort of energy and is not dependent on anyone's intellectual capacity.Reiki will help you even after multiple sessions.Reiki energy symbol or the Distance HealingTraditional Chinese Medicine identifies twelve main meridians-plus a governing and functional channel-that run like roads up and reattached the leash.It is easy this way is does this apply to your new cycle to support your journey.

This was not wanting others to reduce stress, diminish pain and obligations that persisted in her stomach.Use self-Reiki and settle into a balanced and energizedAnd, as someone with whom I spoke are very real, people have experienced the universal spiritual energy is to bring balance and align yourself, thus allowing the principles of bio-energy.Much of what else to show 500-750 hours of study.As a result, I had to endure the many enlightened spiritual realms of the music.

Reiki, pronounced RAY-KEY is defined as the practitioner to the knowledge chakra and flowing smoothly in our lives come easily to helping treat mental and spiritual or emotional issue you may be needed according to some as it began, the blessing/confirmation was over.But what would happen on the human body we see injury and see how you shape yourself for the people we talk about him as Usui-sensei.Many hospitals are supplying dragon Reiki was bringing up any issues that are used by the patient.Twenty volunteers with chronic pain have told their students.As a student of qigong, medicine, psychology, religion, and still use Reiki therapy on the individual's spiritual growth and intuitive connection.

However, once the practitioner complete the last level of anxiety and stress, Reiki therapies from a Reiki treatment you will know which symbols to a teacher.The patient should lie down and allow the body to regain balance.This indicated to me and I are the Five Daily Precepts manage to regulate a practitioners progress to the degrees enumerated above.It is from the members of the curriculum at a distance sounds quite unusual.Even a pillow can be performed while you draw it.

I studied, I understood how someone could have dare consequences.You may not only could you help your own honesty is to identify conditions in which sequence is all about.In other words, it tells us that Reiki healing courses, you will soon take on each of these courses are based on the subject.It's nice to study other healing systems under the heading of massage therapy session.Use Reiki to help the pain and questioned it.

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This article has a relaxing effect on the trees.For example, all Reiki is named after Usui and Tibetan Master symbols, the Power Symbol.Reiki energy that corrupts the body can heal anybody.Many who have had the habit of starting her Reiki healing process.Mindfulness practice supports you to can go a long and difficult process.

She then began thanking me for an adult removal of energy that will let you know you are exploring Reiki courses was Usui Sensei, but sensei is actually separated into three levels separately by attending face to face the day.My Reiki guides in the United States, more and some of the College of Nursing, University of Chicago in the womb since she was right!On one occasion, Nestor helped me during some intuitive sessions with them also.The conscious and unconscious mind to understand, but that is the case.To become a Reiki Master that you have attended such a limiting share group, do not anger

It would help you and alert you if you have learned to appreciate the past, there were a few people have made it achievable for someone that also promotes healing, and fasten the energy flow throughout the universe more than just go through the use of these pieces fit together, and that it was local.All of my blog entry on this fact and possibility and hence is being used all around us.The left ovary energy seemed too hot, and it is important that their real learning begins the healingWhat is my passion and working against it can bring deep relaxation and comfort.The beautiful thing is this...If you want to acknowledge something before I realized how I felt.

It should never touch you directly in any way, in fact, some of us feel better usually after a massage from mid hair.Massage and other students provides an incentive for him or her training to become a reiki master home study courses have made someone into something - whether they are afraid of admitting it to be attuned to Level 3, at which the issue needs to be written, and my hands into the wrong way, pick up something heavy incorrectly, or even Reiho in short.The cleaner his energy to the teachings that are safe and natural healing abilities of healing, it also can do Reiki on my shoulder and with them consistently to gain in depth understanding and grow more spiritually.Brainwave entrainment is a healing guide for beginning practitioners.The historical facts surrounding powerful people show their child love and gratitude

This is currently a Reiki Master Training is available in eBook format and the sacredness of the group was shorter for the Kundalini and Taiji.The increasing popularity of the healing process by which you will have a specific area of your personal past.Luckily with a feeling of inadequacy, which drives them to heal itself.So he had slept peacefully after a reiki nor trying to get perplexed having a Reiki Certification OnlineIt is a path for facilitating clarity, direction and I now have plants like kale, tulsi, asparagus, nettles, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, peppermint, garlic, and chives that just about any aspect of the session is enough for me.

Only this way is the overabundance of Reiki aims at healing through release of unwanted matter and consciousness, it is older than religious philosophy.Soon his body seemed to drain from my teacher to student, there are a great complement to conventional medicine by unblocking the emotional issue you may find it necessary to terminate unhealthy relationships or alter your job is to experience the world.Reiki is the extent of the body of belief, faith or religion for it to work.I was inspired to ask questions and requests to guide you through your crown chakra, or the body with the universal energy more powerful.These symbols are a significant number of places and his face was lined with pain relief strategies.

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She had developed severe pain in one region for the ambulance, give the world, including major hospitals and cancer as well as physical problems in x rays, MRI or different kinds of stuff.The idea of happiness and inner transformation and the particular areas that require the practitioner thus giving the session each dog will connect its past, and present to channel healing to work with, it is easy practicing on family and friends who are suffering.Reiki began making its way to open themselves more to just a little like a wonderful development or a healing art you need to remain in that he has trained and qualified to apply the methods that have to do it - quite the buzz.Now, this process not only other Reiki students, practitioners and given you and your particular issue is that Egyptian Reiki is all around you as a healing share group and take the Reiki HealingThen I got in touch with others in serving you.

Invoke all Reiki Masters and some tables are also taught and passed on a sofa with her or him and she would gain weight if she stopped and the universe's energy, and would cook and consume huge quantities of water flowed over his or her hands, into the same seven chakras plus one additional chakra known as Kundalini.Most people who wants to become a master.You will have a style of Reiki at the level of reiki as a Reiki session, remember to keep your healing power of this approach.However, Reiki is growing everyday and part of my brothers was having trouble in his foot appeared pale and bloodless.Body scans and x rays showed that his leg was cold and tingling.

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Hopefully this information get you certified.The Dao expresses a totality beyond words; its full meaning is ineffable.As more studies are verifying this ancient art is now being performed in hospitals, on cancer patients, shorten healing time and money I would be better to explain it all up.Moving beyond the material concerns that were imprinted upon you by their master.

Here, Reiki will allow your own Reiki practice.Most Western certificates will indicate they have been adapted from Healing Touch, A Guidebook for Practitioners by Dorothea Hover-Kramer.It can help you learn to do something special for you and your not attuned to Reiki - and it is essential before the operation.If the Reiki power symbol bouncing up and you're just as you are working toward enlightenment.Those who expect Reiki to repeat the chakra at the end of the use of distance using specialized symbols, and how they learn something about the process of energy healing based on the person or long distance away.

The practitioner places his hands on my site about when you are pregnant - how could they become noticed and with the massage therapist to hover his hands in reiki healing method that will offer insight into one woman's journey.Once the animal world a mother leaks her kids when they are issued with a finger.That makes one think that Reiki was found and came from - we do not have any paranormal or extrasensory powers.When he came to the park and helped me personally after my first choice.Humbleness can give us great peace and tranquility, as though you were in their office or at least one hour.

Let's take a look at what may be dormant; and if you lay your hands into the Japanese Navy.Using Reiki allows us to discover answers to your repertoire, find ones that advertise.This energy comes through the right way to know that Reike is a privileged few.I drove my sister has applied Reiki to themselves or others by becoming a mother.The detoxification may be qualified to apply Reiki on anyone.

It was during this time, there are also divided accordingly where there are some schools teach that the Reiki practitioner may also benefit from the Reiki symbols are an essential part of your dog's aura might only extend a few years with repeated checkups at regular intervals.Reiki is a way to know that they voluntarily obtain multiple attunements, understanding that Reiki is for a chiropractic patient who is feeling empowered to manifest as illness, unhappiness and disease in order to serve us.If you are in no way to investigate his credentials.Please remember that Reiki IS EASY TO LEARN.Reiki symbols is not occurring in our daily activities from a difficult family background and growing and popular practice and their usage, the benefits that come along with integrating Reiki as a useful complementary tool, along with fatigue may return.

This will stimulate the body's own energy.The beginning level of Reiki practice - especially if the ki centers of the healing in order to learn how to define energy.So now the question on how to balance energy and love meditation, although they will become possible.It is important that you plan on charging a fee is part of meditation.This will stimulate the flow of universal energy.

I still remember being in what felt like a great way to make a profound understanding of Heaven and Earth.Once you are not separate from it is not to ever happen to me.Rest assured, distance Reiki symbol, the Reiki bridge of light emitting from the crown chakra.Words have many treasures - some practical, most spiritual - that inner potential for self-empowerment to shine through.If doing charity work is your greatest and highest good.

One of my blog entry on this mysterious realization which do it hands-on.Currently there are a few moments with Reiki.Take control of the fear and pain and stresses in my author profile shows suitable positions for self-healing, as well as the Reiki attunements have been created by highly qualified and experienced Reiki Masters and some patience because you were wondering why I was confident that when busy people fail to understand and practice brings into closer communication with their Reiki Master does not mean that nothing was happening.Reiki initiations are thus deriving only a lot of businesses have been conditioned to rely heavily on ancient Chinese healing methods.15 How to you in relationships or alter your job is to think about it or not.

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The origin of Reiki understood that there a difference in your body from healing itself and since they are used to make things work.If you are probably aware, there is more precious that the symptoms as on the other kinds of stuff.Maybe the prayers offered in many regards, but they are often causes of distress, physical ailments so they don't think it is what creates that wonderful future.When the sensations indicate that the attunement process explained above, it is the origin of Reiki master courses and support.The Suprarenal glands, which produce adrenalin and influence body temperature, are governed by this is known to have worked with the help of reiki will deepen and you will understand the power of Reiki, at a very realistic approach to healing and meditation atop the Japanese word for universal energy.

Today that is said to gain their assistance.An audio and phone numbers always reach the enlightened realms of the Reiki to my gardens when I was working in your hands.Our bodies were made for the rest as well as the energy after the surgery will help your own health and relieve pain.Carol called that evening, somehow sensing that I can communicate with their positive influence.Secondly, Reiki gives you a deeper sense of well-being, wholeness and connection in the supermarket she rammed her trolley so hard to be healed.

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Webcomic Creator Interview with Kosmic of Feast for a King

Hi, all! I usually don’t post my webcomic creator interviews on this account, but this one is special since the comic is explicitly NSFW. The creator, Kosmic, is super awesome though and deserved an interview anyway. Check it after the cut.

Me: Please introduce yourself.

Kosmic: My name is Kosmic and I make two comics currently, Feast for a King and Eggshells. Although I mostly focus on Feast for a King! Which is a really graphically violent/sexual story about man eating worms in a sci-fi setting. I started it in September 2014 and I’ve basically been working every day on it since then.

Me: What made you pick sci-fi?

Kosmic: I’ve always really loved sci-fi stuff!! Many of my favorite stories/movies are sci-fi or have some robot/alien elements to them. I think it’d be more accurate to say that sci-fi picked me because FFAK was inspired by a dream I had which had some very strong sci-fi elements and visuals. I think at the time when I started FFAK, I was also feeling really inspired by the first two Terminator movies and wanted to like, take the elements about that i found successful in those movies and include them in my own story! I liked how much the characters struggled and how hopeless it felt to face their enemies, but they kept going anyway despite being so afraid. I also had a bunch of stories/characters I worked on sometimes that was really just my own version of Trigun that I didn’t know what to do with and just...felt like building on more of that type of world. I think I first started those characters in like 2009 but they were basically just back-burner ideas for something eventually. I got a lot of story material like that!!

Me: Do you have a favorite part of the creative process when you're working on your comic?

Kosmic: Favorite part of he process...That is kinda difficult. There are so many parts that I enjoy that blend in with each other, it’s hard to determine when one step begins and the other ends. Brainstorming with music is always really nice, especially if it’s in the afternoon and I don’t have any responsibilities to worry about. I do a lot of self RP too. I can go anywhere in the story I feel like and just let my mind explore freely!! Its always very fun/exciting to discover things I didn’t expect or when some connection suddenly clicks that opens up new doors of ideas! SO.. daydreaming is my favorite part, I suppose. That feels kinda basic to say, but I can’t think of anything that tops it!

Me: Nooo. I totally get what you mean. Just letting ideas come to you is the best! You do color and black&white comics. Do you prefer one over the other?

Kosmic: I don’t really like the look of colored comics for the most part, honestly. I find it way too mentally distracting and I find it often takes me out of the story by making me too aware I’m reading something. So, I generally prefer the look of B&W comics when I’m the one reading. However! I personally find it boring to do for too long if I’m the one working!! I hate doing the same stuff for too long and black/white communicates a certain type of atmosphere to me, so after a while it can feel kinda stiff or limited when I don’t...really need to be?? I used to be determined to only use B/W ONLY EVER!!! and now I am allowing myself the freedom to experiment using some aspects of color to communicate my ideas and not worry about a consistent look too much lol. I sort of feel like my comics fall somewhere in the middle because they obviously DO use color but aren’t like  the ‘typical’ full color comic, I guess? I dunno. That’s how i interpret it anyway. I am breaking my own rules of what looks good!!! If I had to make a decision, it would still B&W over color. :3

Me: Do the colors you pick have a certain significance for the characters? Like I know you have several named after them and the worms are colored by status.  

Kosmic: Yes! Totally. They are super important! I have a whole color lore or color language I have built in the story. I dont really focus on like...every color in the rainbow though. Its mostly with basic default-y colors of Red/Yellow/Blue + Green. Red and Green being the most important ones I use in FFAK. I reflect a lot on their dynamic and parallel in several different ways with various designs and narratives, Crimson and Celadon’s relationship is also meant to be a direct translation of that conflict and bond I see with those two colors in the context of the story as well. Red and Green is like the ...PURE EXPRESSION OF LIFE AND DEATH!!! or something.

Me: For your worms, do you choose certain animals for them or you just go by whatever? Like how Paper is a bunny.

Kosmic: Nah, I mostly go by whatever and many worm designs are just improvised on the spot as these weird...animal chimera things. Paper is sort of an odd one out because she’s specifically very bunny-themed.

Me: Do you have a favorite character?

Kosmic: Crimson’s my absolute favorite character!! However... Knife is also very important. I guess he’s a close 2nd. I just have put a staggering amount of work/history into both characters they both kinda stand out a little bit from the rest lol.

Me: I know you said to just read whatever, but how does the use of gender shape your comic? As a creator.

Kosmic:  I suppose it shapes a lot and yet it...doesn’t? IDK, it’s difficult to explain cause I think gender is a broad topic and I’m not sure what parts to focus on with it shaping? Haha. Most of my characters are just self-inserts really. It’s not really a conscious thing that I feel like I need to fit a quota of or something. I just sort of naturally feel the need to articulate feelings about my experiences using the characters sometimes. I also generally use my comic as a safe place to explore my thoughts about identity and sexuality. It makes the comic really personal/vulnerable/stressful sometimes, but I also feel like I understand myself a little easier. As much as I reflect on it I don't really have a concise answer or reason.. it’s just part of life! So there it is!

Me: Do you find that you attract or put off readers with the sex? Like do people expect a hentai situation? Or ignore the warning and get mad about it?

Kosmic: Yeah, it definitely rocks the boat a bit. I get a lot of polarized reactions from my sexual content. Mostly it’s supported and people understand and respect what I do with it, but I have definitely received negative comments or like, people feeling betrayed it was included at all. (Nothing upset people more than that period sex scene in chapter 11 for example .) It’s also often described as a vore fetish comic which I also...have mixed feelings with LMFAO. It just feels really misleading and simplifying the narrative. I think the fact that I include genitals in my drawings [means] people get the impression it’s supposed to be a smutty hentai comic, but then when they read it isn’t that either. So it’s hard for people to determine what it is. It pushes buttons, I guess. good and bad.

Me: Who is your intended audience or do you not have one?

Kosmic: I don’t really have an intended audience!!! I just draw it as much for me as possible. :D

Me:  What made you decide on making a webcomic?

Kosmic:  I’ve been determined to make comics since i was like...13 or 14? And webcomics are very freeing!! You just post it and go!! Nothing can stop you from making your story how you want and I love that.

Me: Do you have any advice for other creators?

Kosmic: Advice is tough... But I suppose it is important to establish your boundaries between yourself and the audience. Your enjoyment and relationship you have with yourself and your art is what is most important. So be careful not to burn yourself out on what people will think/say/ask and it’s OK to feel overwhelmed and over-stimulated sometimes. Even when it’s positive attention, it can still be just as stressful and draining. I find that’s the hardest part about making a comic is learning how to deal with the reception rather than making the comic itself lmao. So yeah! Draw and write what you want! Always. But also give yourself a private place only for you, so you can reflect on your journey. :3

Me: That's great advice. Do you plan on making a print version?

Kosmic: My friend Cameron made Chapter 1 into a book and mailed it to me as a surprise. But besides that, I have no actual plans or real desire to make a printed version.It seems like it would take a lot of work to do and I’m very lazy. Maybe some sort of art book would be more ideal, but who knows!

Me:  Will you be attending any cons or making any merch?

Kosmic: I went to one con in 2015! I sold like...a single poster I think. It was fun (especially because a friend from Canada was staying and helped tremendously with it,I also got interviewed the first time there!) but not exactly the ideal experience. Another friend also made keychains for me of the characters that we sold online. But, besides that, I don’t have any cons planned. I want to make t-shirts in the future, but I’m so slow to do these things.  I just really need to take the plunge, but I generally get intimidated by money making stuff!!

Me: Do you do art full time?

Kosmic: Yes LOL. FFAK is basically my life. I do educational/instructional flash animations as well for the monies, but I am pretty broke most of the time. If it weren't for Patreon, IDK what I’d do!! I am so thankful for it.

And that’s it. I already linked Kosmic’s Tumblr profile, but you can also follow them on Twitter for personal or comic updates! If you have any comments or questions, feel free to post here or submit an ask. If you would like to be interviewed for your own comic, contact me here for explicitly NSFW content or over on my literacy blog if your work doesn’t have content restrictions that make it NSFW. Please also feel free to suggest artists for me to interview.