1. Art journal about a community member(s) that has positively influenced your life. This could be a teacher, student, coach, neighbor, a stranger, anyone that is not related to you. Your interaction(s) could have occurred at any point in your life.
This one reads "in my child's eye all teachers hold a special place... but especially my middle school art teacher Ms. Bethel." I really did love learning and all teachers, but the relationship that Ms. Bethel and I have continues still today. She was the first to introduce me to the field of art therapy, and I believe influenced me in so many of my life decisions.
2. Do one good deed that you would not usually do. Art journal about that experience. Again - feel free to do more than one kind act and journal about each one, but at least do one accompanied by a journal page.
This one reads "first on the scene. road rash. burns. tears. lots of tears. prayer for strangers." This is actually something that happened a while ago for me, but when faced with this prompt, anything that I could think of seemed trivial to this experience. I was commuting on my way to a final, and I was the first on a car crash. A terrible car crash. It was early, the driver fell asleep... and he and several of his coworkers/friends who were in the car were thrown as the car flipped. They were in the construction field and tools littered the highway. I pulled over and held the hand of one of the men. More people arrived and I stayed... until the ambulance arrived. I am forever impacted by this and will always remember their faces. I called the hospital, but due to HIPPA laws they were not able to give me any information... To this day I do not know what became of the men...
I didn't know you were participating in this project! I am working on my pages - hope to be done in a few days. I really find it interesting to see what person people choose, what act they choose, and how they journal it.
ReplyDeleteSo totaly inspired today!! Thanks.I will continnue in my art process
ReplyDeleteThese are AMAZING!!! I'm so excited and can't wait to show them off!
ReplyDeletethey just arrived and will be on the blog at the end of next week!
ReplyDeleteStunning pages, and the back story is powerful.
ReplyDeleteKelley--your post has inspired me to get going on my own piece for the journal challenge--thanks! Your story about the MVA is moving in many ways--the compassion given, the lack of resolution, the uncertainty of life.
ReplyDeletethank you all for the positive comments. I found that the second page was very difficult to create, but it felt good to do it. Thanks again!
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