And to finish this week’s focus on art therapy, I thought it would be useful to look at an art therapy project and its imagery.  I started a daily visual journal in 2005 to record my feelings about events happening in my life. I was in graduate school for education, working towards my masters in art therapy as well as a K-12 art teaching certificate. It was a busy schedule. One of my first assignments was to keep a visual journal. 

My visual journal was often sporadic, with weeks and months between entries. So, on June 5th, 2009 I decided to start creating a visual journal on individual pieces of paper. This gave me a little more freedom with techniques since the “pages” were not bound together. For a year and a half I created a page every day, and I benefited from the daily focus and creative outlet.  This process also informed me about how different people may react to a project differently and more positively if you merely change the format.  Through the journal you can see what emotions I was going through on any given day.  Several of these pieces eventually were a part of an exhibit at St. John’s Hospital that focused on the healing power of art.