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.

Art therapy crafts

Paper swan on a real stump

paper swan means the artificial swan, and the stump points to the limitations of the living with the disabilities.

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towards the silence

the work of the art therapy class

“When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.  The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”    (Henri Nouwen)

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?

the transformational art

Humble smile and peace despite the wheelchair illuminate the faces of all who focus on the mystery of the beauty. Such  pictures honor the artists and inspire us to follow them, thus enable us to experience just  magical transformations  too.

Encouraging truth in wisdom of the quotes

Hi, Tomas!

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly

--- Lao Tzu

my only supporter

I have read

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9 (NIV)

Thus a glimpse from underfoot became my supporter.

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.