The Hearts and Bones Art Class

Sept 8, 1998

Exercise #19 :

THINGS OF MEANING

Gather several things from your home and studio... objects, pictures, whatever... things that mean something to you. Sit on the floor and place the gathered ones around you. Keep moving them around until they "feel" right. What do they have in common? Why do these things mean something to you? What do they mean? What direction is North?

Pick up each item and really look at it, like you have never seen it before. Get your writing and drawing journal. Write about each object, what feelings do they evoke? Do they change now that you are relly seeing them? Now draw them, quickly. Draw from a bird's eye point of view you sitting in the circle surrounded by your things of meaning.

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