What next?

What next?
The artists are free despite the situation they live in because the fine arts are the personal attitude, not a store they have for living.

empathy colors

The photo empathy colors portray art therapy club "Modus Vivendi" at work. What's observable here will become clear as we name the artist.
I was put under a charm while viewing the colors under the brush. I think it wouldn't be hard to all artists to identify themselves with the hand that holds the paintbrush in the photo on above . Familiar mood, isn't it?
Our colors may differ between yet all palettes sparkle with empathy colors that turn into the artworks.
It's just hard to name the women in the photo the disabler. That would sound offensively... and would distort the picture.  Members of  Modus Vivendi club never address each other such way.
Unfortunately such labeling exist in our reality. Modus Vivendi is the club for people with the psychiatric disorders. If  it's so, then the colors should be dark - accidental and mindless, but look at the photo once again.  Do you see here any except the love?

my jottings on art therapy

At first glimpse, my jottings on art therapy may look a bit confusing, yet do you know that the sun kills the colors on the photo tape, meanwhile dimmed with tears eyes reflect the light in full?

All flowers act the same. They wither away in beautiful vases but bloom out in dirty ground as my wife chatters with them while watering the plants. Blossoms burst despite the wild wind outside.  So I questioned myself, do I grasped the lesson?
Let's look at what was voiced by my photos. Here is My Fall Festival and the Confrontation with Oneself  looks for you. Please read these posts.
Hope to get your feedback. Thank you.

Wish for recovery

Time from time the life gives a headache to all people, thus it is popular to talk about the health care. That's easy, because we all have heard lots of wise musings on what one should do to stay healthy. Consequently nobody resists doctor's prescription...Unfortunately, the sickness doesn't  retreat, but continues to spread all over the world. I think, the cause is the obvious: people firstly need to WISH to RECOVER, prior listening to the consultants. Yet is that possible in the hospitals for the mentally ill? Just look at the photo below.

The patients  are learning to communicate between. As you see for yourself, the real miracles happen in art therapy club Modus Vivendi. The cake will be tasted soon and the boys will take the pencils for the colors could bloom on their pictures. That would be their response to the received love  (the reciprosal step towards the  real health -  the fruits of art therapy).
All the above could be thus in case there would be enough tools for the work, but there are just few voluntaries and very limited possibilities to do anything in the concrete. Just enthusiasm of few hears the need... So could you take a shot without the camera?  I too. Therefore I am especially grateful to Mel Avila Alarilla for his interest in our work. Dear Mel has featured my blogs on his wonderful site Literatti- An Artistic Blog. It was the priceless moral support. The review enabled me to face the future more optimistic. I wrote about that on my blog art by Tomas. Thank you once again, dear Mel Avila Alarilla. God bless you. 

our life

You see the members of art therapy club Modus Vivendi (hospital for the people with the psychiatric disorders, Klaipeda, Lithuania) in the photo on above. It was taken by press-photographer Eimantas Chachlovas. Pictures of the club were displayed in Lithuanian Parliament and had the tremendous success. The exposition was opened on 2009.04.30, yet it was not closed till now.

Made psychiatric nurse Vaida Dudiene, artists Tomas Karkalas and Renate Lusis rejoice over the success of the exposition Symphony of Color . We rejoice at opportunity to help the patients to recover from depression and to spread the beauty over their surroundings - to put a smile on their faces. We lack lots of things, yet we have what's the main indeed - that's the love, that grows as we share her with other.

purity of snow versus coloration

The need to pay the Internet fees threatened to stop this blog. The future looked dark. The lack of cash threatened to suppress joy to advertise the art therapy colors further, and it seemed that the situation was the blind-alley. Yet it couldn't be thus. "Modus Vivendi" was started with the conviction that ... there is no such thing as no chance. I still have hope to get the support from the unknown benefactor. Thank you for the help.

greetings Vida

Our hardships test our faithfulness, and thus our pictures are our response. Just look at the photo above. You will see not the complaints but the passionate gratitude for the remaining alive.

Wow, THANK YOU!
We were awarded by Sharon Hart.


A saying goes "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it" Thus let me pass these wonderful awards to all of you, dear bloggers. Thank you!

photo reportage Advent 2008

the candles were fired and the art therapy club Modus Vivendi gathered together at the festal table.



Docent of Klaipeda University Dalia Kisieliunaite visited people with the psychiatric disorders. She came together with her children group Vorusnele and the hospital was filled with the dreamy music. The fantastic Advent songs warmed the eyes of each one from Modus Vivendi club.

art and life

This photo was taken in the music library. The artist Renate Lusis helps the girls from art school to depict the sounds of music in the language of the color. Members of the art therapy club Modus Vivendi participated here too. The patients were the viewers in the concrete case but they too have learned a lot. The beauty is much more than the kind of shapes in the artworks. The light becomes alive if we not only gaze at the sunbeam and copy what we see at a moment, but make conscious effort to comprehend our emotions and thus respond with our whole life.

unsigned generosity

While looking at the fortunate in life, the differences in our environments are the obvious, and the comparisons make our day dark. Consequently, the stats of psychiatric disorders threaten the world...- depict the state of the tomorrow of the humanity.

It is the luck, the picture becomes much brighter as we enter in the art therapy class of the hospital for the mentally ill. Have a look at the photo above. Can you tell me the reason for that just incredible metamorphosis? What do you think? Let's discuss.

Who lacks the most creates the best

Ala Lickevic

Our Victorelis

It was just accidental shot, but this feature made the photo doubly precious to me. I'm rejoicing not at my mastery to modify the view that was caught by my lens but the miracle of transformation that takes place in Modus Vivendi, art therapy club in the hospital for the people with psychiatric disorders (Klaipeda, Lithuania). Victorelis is not a model person. He is short and crooked man, who looks underfoot and dont attract girl's eye. But that is so until he knocks at always opened doors of the art therapy class. Victor becomes totally different person then. He identifies with the drawing, becomes the flowers that appear on his paper and everything else just cease existing.
Wow, what could attract us more than such silent vitality of the blooming earth?
It was no wonder, I just automatically took my camera and made the click you see below.

My quote:

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?" William Shakespeare
"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret" Aphra Behn