La Gestalt Circle
Módulo residencial con tres generaciones de la Escuela Gestalt Viva Claudio Naranjo
April, 2019

Martina (my beloved, patient art teacher): Go paint Mabel [the chicken] as best you can.

A week later:

Martina: What´s wrong with its neck? It looks strangled.

We talked a lot about shapes of shadows, forms of feathers, and how it is not necessary to "stay within the lines or on one side of the page when going crazy with my sketch book.  "Jen, suelta la mano."
This is loose.
practice   p r a c t i c e   practice  p r a c t i c e   practice   c o p y    practice  copy copy copy . . . .

The result of looser:

The Chicken
April, 2019
Thank you, Martina.

Inspiration comes from Sarah Hillock´s Mabel which appears on the cover of The Bricoleur & His Sentences by Stan Dragland (2014).  Thank you, Stan. (More on Stan in a future post.)

"Oceanos de compasión" -- Lila.
Be an ocean of compassion. It will be one of my practices of 2020.

My favorite family picture of [May] 2019. This was our last morning snuggle in the old, huge bed.

March, 2019
Concón