Visual Art Work is not a Therapy in my philosophical practice and consulting. It is about using art media as a form of expression and communication. It is not about using art as diagnosing but to express your thoughts and feelings.
Conventional art therapy uses image and symbols as its primary mode of communication. Our Visual Art Work is form of philosophical practice and offers topological (like origami) way of bypassing the cognitive process and working directly with the neurological and somatic system. It is not an art lesson or an activity group. You do not need to have used art materials or make a skilled piece of artwork.
Visual Art Work as form of philosophical practice allows for continued exploration, reflection and comparison over a period of time, where words can be easily forgotten and denied. When something is created, the permanence of it offers a unique area of involvement. You can continuously look at the image, be intrigued by it, and eventually be challenged to explore their meanings.
Expression via Visual Art Work within philosophical practice can help people integrate and synthesize conflicting feelings and experiences. Individuals with difficulties regulating emotions may experience contrasting emotions in quick succession, and thus struggle to articulate what exactly it is that they were experiencing. Art expression surpasses rules of language, such as syntax, grammar, and logic, a myriad of thoughts and feelings may be contained on one artwork. This topological capacity for art work to contain paradoxical elements can help visitors integrate and synthesize conflicting internal states.
With the advancement in technology, digital art therapy and online art therapy are also increasingly common. Yet, our Visual Art Work is possible as Digital Art Work Philosophical Practice, based on the use of QR codes and AR codes for expression and communication.
Yet, the imaginative activity in itself is in itself therapeutic, allowing us to be free, playful and creative, and creativity also encourages a small risk taking and experimentation. It has the potential to enrich a person’s life.
But the power of creative visual arts extends beyond recreation and relaxation. It can help us release emotions and get in touch with unconscious materials.
When words are not enough, we turn to images and symbols to tell our stories. Together we can recognise the nonverbal symbols and metaphors that are difficult to express in words.
In our topological approach to drawing and visual art as topological reading, things as topological image and imagery are not linear- there is no beginning and end as in a visual or verbal story. It surpasses the rule of language, syntax, grammar, and logic. It is all about topology. With topological mode we can express many complexities simultaneously. Contradictory elements can be joined with joy, integrated and synthesized.
Often in this process, suppressed unconscious thoughts and patterns, forgotten memories, or answers to existential concerns that have no rational solutions would emerge.
Effective philosophical consulting or philosophical practice work requires more than an intellectual analysis but rather an practice and experience and visual art work can help to practically apply new understandings in life. The experience of talking through metaphors and visuals could evoke a sense of “philosophical playfulness”.
Conventional art therapy uses image and symbols as its primary mode of communication. Our Visual Art Work is form of philosophical practice and offers topological (like origami) way of bypassing the cognitive process and working directly with the neurological and somatic system. It is not an art lesson or an activity group. You do not need to have used art materials or make a skilled piece of artwork.
Visual Art Work as form of philosophical practice allows for continued exploration, reflection and comparison over a period of time, where words can be easily forgotten and denied. When something is created, the permanence of it offers a unique area of involvement. You can continuously look at the image, be intrigued by it, and eventually be challenged to explore their meanings.
Expression via Visual Art Work within philosophical practice can help people integrate and synthesize conflicting feelings and experiences. Individuals with difficulties regulating emotions may experience contrasting emotions in quick succession, and thus struggle to articulate what exactly it is that they were experiencing. Art expression surpasses rules of language, such as syntax, grammar, and logic, a myriad of thoughts and feelings may be contained on one artwork. This topological capacity for art work to contain paradoxical elements can help visitors integrate and synthesize conflicting internal states.
With the advancement in technology, digital art therapy and online art therapy are also increasingly common. Yet, our Visual Art Work is possible as Digital Art Work Philosophical Practice, based on the use of QR codes and AR codes for expression and communication.
Yet, the imaginative activity in itself is in itself therapeutic, allowing us to be free, playful and creative, and creativity also encourages a small risk taking and experimentation. It has the potential to enrich a person’s life.
But the power of creative visual arts extends beyond recreation and relaxation. It can help us release emotions and get in touch with unconscious materials.
When words are not enough, we turn to images and symbols to tell our stories. Together we can recognise the nonverbal symbols and metaphors that are difficult to express in words.
In our topological approach to drawing and visual art as topological reading, things as topological image and imagery are not linear- there is no beginning and end as in a visual or verbal story. It surpasses the rule of language, syntax, grammar, and logic. It is all about topology. With topological mode we can express many complexities simultaneously. Contradictory elements can be joined with joy, integrated and synthesized.
Often in this process, suppressed unconscious thoughts and patterns, forgotten memories, or answers to existential concerns that have no rational solutions would emerge.
Effective philosophical consulting or philosophical practice work requires more than an intellectual analysis but rather an practice and experience and visual art work can help to practically apply new understandings in life. The experience of talking through metaphors and visuals could evoke a sense of “philosophical playfulness”.
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