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WOW All done! For now at least. I have been slowly working on this for a few weeks now not knowing where to take it, finally I decided that I was at a good stopping point. I might return to it one day but, it isn't any time soon.

I became inspired after reading the following in Art Therapy- Journal of the American Art Therapy Association
Presented at General Session, 24th Annual AATA Conference by Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR -- "Soul & Spirit"

"...Soul is a cauldron, huge & dark. It is our job to keep the fire burning underneath, to replenish the contents within, & to stir & stir, endlessly. Under some cauldrons the fire has long since burned out. The curve of the kettle is caked with rust; the stuff inside is desicated. The stirrer has gone off to other tasks & forgotten the sacred duty: to keep things cooking, as the jazz musician says. What goeson in the cauldron is the transformation of human suffering, the distillation of our sorrow. If our sorrow isn't cooked it stays alive & raw, eating us instead of us eating it, and it chases us, or so we imagine, away from our cauldron, our fire, to other places until we are so weak we die inside. We can forget that the fire & the cauldron are essential, are our source, our job.
Art making is an act of remembrance - remembering that soul is our place, remembering about starting fires, combustion, cooking, & throwing everything into the cauldron...It is from everyday experiences - sorrow, annoyances, jealousy, rage - that soul takes all, the dark, the dirty, the indiscreet, the mundane, and the path of the individual soul..."

This is a picture documentation of the process: [link]
To see a Deatil: [link]

Materials: (cheap) Craft Acrylics, Sumi Ink, & watercolor pencils

Description
WOW All done! For now at least. I have been slowly working on this for a few weeks now not knowing where to take it, finally I decided that I was at a good stopping point. I might return to it one day but, it isn't any time soon.

I became inspired after reading the following in Art Therapy- Journal of the American Art Therapy Association
Presented at General Session, 24th Annual AATA Conference by Pat B. Allen, PhD, ATR -- "Soul & Spirit"

"...Soul is a cauldron, huge & dark. It is our job to keep the fire burning underneath, to replenish the contents within, & to stir & stir, endlessly. Under some cauldrons the fire has long since burned out. The curve of the kettle is caked with rust; the stuff inside is desicated. The stirrer has gone off to other tasks & forgotten the sacred duty: to keep things cooking, as the jazz musician says. What goeson in the cauldron is the transformation of human suffering, the distillation of our sorrow. If our sorrow isn't cooked it stays alive & raw, eating us instead of us eating it, and it chases us, or so we imagine, away from our cauldron, our fire, to other places until we are so weak we die inside. We can forget that the fire & the cauldron are essential, are our source, our job.
Art making is an act of remembrance - remembering that soul is our place, remembering about starting fires, combustion, cooking, & throwing everything into the cauldron...It is from everyday experiences - sorrow, annoyances, jealousy, rage - that soul takes all, the dark, the dirty, the indiscreet, the mundane, and the path of the individual soul..."

This is a picture documentation of the process: [link]
To see a Deatil: [link]

Materials: (cheap) Craft Acrylics, Sumi Ink, & watercolor pencils