PK 168: Can Making Art Change Your Life? Interview with Tamara Laporte From Willowing Arts
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The Parallels Between Art and Meditation
Sally Kohn: I still don't understand the brain and how art connects with it. When you're creating, it might be, there might be parallels drawn to meditation. So for some people, it's easier to access certain inner worlds through visual kind of expression or imagery rather than just like expressing themselves through words. She says she also gives people in her book very specific exercises that are not actually have anything to do with the creative process. But then we take the outcome of whatever we've learned in that and we then create an art piece whereby we emphasize or affirm or solidify the learning or healing in the art process.
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