Art as a Healing Process

In late 2015, I set out to become an art therapist. I took basic psychology classes online and checked into other prerequisites needed to get a master's degree in art therapy. I was encouraged to participate as a client of an art therapist to get a firsthand look. Even though I never became an art therapist, I could not have imagined how this experience would profoundly transform and integrate me and unexpectedly shed light on the artist within.

Here are a series of projects with a retrospective account of my art-making spiritual process while in art therapy between 2015- 2019. I made art from concrete objects led by my unconscious self-expression. I created it outside my normal digital art-making realm, where I have complete control and often strive for perfection. By sharing these projects using photos, videos, and commentary from myself and art therapist, Rebecca Thomas, PHD, ATR-BC, we hope to give insight into how art can heal.