I’ve been reading this book my therapist gave me, “Art as a Way of Knowing”, I’m not sure how much I really like it though. I like the fact that she mentions how art is such a judgement loaded word and can really turn some people off. That would be me! She says she tends to use the words images or image making so people won’t limit themselves, which is good but it gets a little annoying after awhile. I think after awhile the whole book starts to feel a little too new agey for me. She has this method that she uses of setting an intention (I’d like to know more about my inner critic, for example) and then you just set about making ‘marks’ on the page and let whatever comes, come. Sometimes this works ok, other times I don’t know… I mean ’scribbling on a page can be fun and interesting but sometimes it’s just …scribbles. I’ll probably finish reading it but, I can’t say I’m going to be trying anything else out from the book. I think no doubt I’ll still let myself goof around and scribble as that’s about all I feel comfortable doing here in my moms house. I think I’m gonna move on to my other two art books though and see what they have to offer. I might put up to examples of things that came out of this book experience though. Stay tuned.
