Healing in Arts successfully creates community with a new healing paradigm for art making in a world where rapid cultural fragmentation alienates us. A superficial world where people ricochet from one activity to the next. A cyber culture where we rack up 5,847 synthetic Facebook friends. A culture where we spend less and less real face time within meaningful relationships.
Well-known artist Makoto Fujimura explains how my art facilitates healing: “Art that focuses on the audience rather than the artist’s need for self-expression is unique. A paradigm shift.” By serving others and inviting soul care, the art helps unlock people and move them towards human flourishing.
For example in 2014 after viewing The Scarlet Cord, an anti-sex trafficking installation, a middle-aged woman leaned into me and released a heavy sigh, I felt it to the core. Then she walked away. Not a single word was spoken. But something transpired. Whether large or small, this woman experienced healing—at an art installation.
In the midst of our rapid growing cyber culture where increased isolation breeds loneliness, the viewers feel validated and cared for; their stories underscore the need for creating donor supported Healing in Arts. Time and again visitors experience what T.S. Eliot calls the still point: A significant place in time. A moment of release where change and transformation begin. Healing in Arts, through the art making, builds healthy communities where real people experience renewal and healing.
I know many of you will want to help make Healing in Arts happen.
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Project name: Healing in Arts
