Using Art with Guided Imagery
January 8, 2019
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(scribble image by bob schoenholtz)
Introduction
Interactive Guided ImagerySM (IGISM) assists a person to enhance awareness of their unconscious imagery, and helps one learn to use this imagery to support their learning, growing, healing, and fullness of being. While the most common usage of this method is through direct interaction with imagery in the imagination, IGISM can also be used with the making of art as a way to combine two powerful, and enjoyable processes into one.
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Art, Pain, and Suffering (and Songwriting)
December 11, 2018
An interview with Jeff Tweedy of Uncle Tupelo and Wilco by Bob Boilen at All Songs Considered
On Pain And Songwriting
“I have a lot of strong opinions about the ‘tortured artist myth,’ and, in my opinion, the mistaken notion that art grows out of pain. Everybody has pain in their life. Everyone suffers. If art grew out of suffering alone there’d be a lot more art, and a lot of really true horrific suffering on this planet is done by people in positions where they don’t have the means of production of any type of art. Their daily struggle is survival…
“I think it’s just that art becomes great when people are able to see themselves and recognize themselves in it. And unfortunately one of the most shared experiences for humans is sadness and suffering.”
Toil and Hope
November 6, 2018
Here is my latest sculpture, “Toil and Hope”. It is made of a found object, wood, and gold leaf. It 19.75″ tall and 10.5″ wide.
Toil and Hope
More on Creativity, from a Master
August 3, 2018
Here is a very good article on creative flow from an angle from which you may not be aware. Enjoy.
How to Unleash the Great Perfection of Creativity
By Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
From Lion’s Roar; Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time, July 2, 2017
Informed by the profound teachings of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal tells us how to unleash powerful creative energy we can use anywhere, from the office to the art studio.
Photo by Jennifer Pack.
Newly Recorded Song by Bob and Ekat Pererya
July 30, 2018
Listen to a new recording of a song I wrote many years ago. It is so beautifully sung by Ekat Pererya and recorded and rendered by Lou Pererya. That’s me on keyboards. Enjoy.
Lonely Girl ©
Native American Flute Build
July 25, 2018
My first Native American flute build. This is from a kit sold by Blue Bear Flutes and is made of cedar. I added some detail of my own, of course, with an inlay of poplar along two sides and a crow totem on the sound block. Thanks to Charlie Mato-Toyela for his great YouTube video guidance, supplies, and book on the subject.
Listen to a brief recording of me playing this flute.
Jazz Piano Great Bill Evans on Improvisation -Link to Video
October 4, 2012
Here is a link to the Open Culture web site where they have a post with jazz piano great Bill Evans talking about improvisation. The accompanying video, “The Universal Mind of Bill Evans”, is about 45 minutes long. Worth the time and attention.
