Artist - in conversation...

 Last week, Monday and Wednesday we had very delighted artistic conversation with two spectacular women, artists, dancers, choreographers Helen Kindred and Angela Woodhouse. Both of them represented in unique way their art work and I found somehow myself in both versions. Since my Master thesis is talking about EMBODIED FLOW IN MOTION I could very much connect with Helen's way of teaching, dancing, and thinking around the body, music, flow, movement language, surrendering, breathing, not controlling, awareness of gravity, phenomenological approach to the breath, movement, Self and the movement improvisation in relation with Bartenieff's Movement practice, concept and somatic languages, I also found myself with Angela's visual art work too, especially during the pandemic, I simply started to observe things, people, environment, objects, details while I am walking in un-ordinary, different way. I would say in a less kinaesthetic way, because I was always moved by the sounds, waves, watery elements, spirals, sand dune movements, in general with the any movement but lately I am observing things in a less fluid way, I am observing silence and stillness without motion, I am looking for shadows (haha i could say I became a shadow hunter) and I realized that searching for the shadows, looking for perfect lightness and making shapes of the body parts becomes my obsession, another wonderful therapeutic somatic tool which transforms emotional suffering into kind of artistic freedom. I even wrote a project on that theme and I just need to materialize it into the performance or set of workshops. It is very interesting how much work on shadows talk about person, about self-esteem, fact of being seen, confidence, bravery, women's empowerment, connection with the body in a less physical way, how we are evoking our creative insight and vulnerability. The ART THERAPY is powerful tool for helping in get touch with everything around us. We can make art from anything around us, we just need to dig deeper. Art therapy brings images out from the unconscious to the surface where they can be experienced and felt through the senses and processed verbally. Enjoying see own shadow, own self has a very deep meaning. This means our existence, that we are still in shadow but made from flesh and blood. That we are WE. Here and now. Finding meaning and beauty not only in things itself but in the pattern of shadows, the light and dark which this things provide. This work seeks to heal our bodily rupture with the environment and revalue the darkness and uncover the moment of our weakness and self-awareness.