Explore the relationships between the senses. The Process is focused, calming and uplifting. The product is unimportant. Each step in artistic expression makes a connection.
Mission
Bring calm and a sense of community to people suffering from anxiety and isolation as a result of the covid-19 pandemic
How do we make it?
The Senses and Art Project offers three paths to mindfulness using an educational tool designed to address heightened apprehension while the implications of Covid 19 unfold. Each path: Touch with the Eyes; Feel the Space in Music; and Movement and Emotion, builds awareness of how our senses can be called upon to create calm, focus, and a feeling of connection and engagement with others. The target audiences are curious minded, educated, adults who may be living with children. Their anxiety may be triggered by the inability to safely visit meaningful places, they may be fearful of coming into contact with people and they have grief that uplifting, shared cultural events will disappear from their lives.
Each of the three branches of Senses and Art begins with a narrated introduction; questions and opportunities to journal designed to help the user become aware of how they are feeling. The pre-recorded videos of artists are aimed at different levels of mobility and skill. Users may engage alone or with someone of a different age. From a carefully structured beginning to an open-ended platform for engagement, each branch will ultimately permit users to seek and offer feedback; engage in lessons or find collaborators with whom to share their creations.
Hear Internal Space
Bring Your Eyes and Ears Together to Compare How you Move Through Internal Space.
Touch with the Eyes
Joining our Eye’s Movement to our hand’s Movement has the Effect of Slowing Us Down. We See as Though We Were Touching.
Meaning is in Gesture
Meaning in Music is felt by the gestures we make to capture the quality of sounds we hear.