Written by Why Fruitloop’s Art Therapies help.
I will be the first to admit that the Art Therapy programme is not the easiest Mystery Box we offer. Time, attitude, priorities all form perfect excuses.
As does guilt.
Fruiloop prepares them, at least the Mayor should have the courtesy to engage with it. But these things take time and with a little pixie dust, the pennies begin to drop. Then they start cascading.
Sticking to the instructions is not mandatory. The journey is more important than the result. I learned that at a guided tour of a modern art gallery once. We were all staring at a black canvas, and told the story of the artist’s journey.
The story of this week’s art therapy? .
My wife recommended I install myself behind the church and get some shut-eye. Fruitloop and I have been putting Brida through its paces. It dominates my life. We start a project, develop an idea, and it produces new ideas, concepts. Greta and Chaos Tamer help us, Simba, our third tool will roar into life next week.
It is seldom I do as I am told…but I had been eyeing that space myself, so two garden chairs, in the sun, and I sat down.
When one’s head spins, distraction is necessary. In my case, it is music…the link to this week’s Art Therapy. But instead of drawing, I listened. I have a playlist of Indian songs on Spotify. Melodic, intricate, romantic, different I sink into this world, dream, think, write on the Chaos Tamer. Repeat.
Three and a half hours later, my carnal needs awaken. Apéro, drink, snacks…time to shift bases. Everything installed. Rosato, ice cubes, water. …. Spanish ham flavoured crisps.
Then it happens. The biggest surprise… I am so relaxed, have a totally free head that I go to the living room and grab the book I have been trying to read for over a year.
Fruitloop’s exercise opened the door to start reading again…..in I don’t know how long…two years maybe?
So, this is my Art Therapy result: a story and a few pictures. I could have probably drawn something, but artistic freedom as it is, the interpretation of my experience would not have been as good.
My advice…try it. Start again. But don’t give up. Eventually you will find the vibe. And if you don’t draw, but take pictures…it doesn’t matter…the journey is what matters.
It might just be the nudge you needed to feel good again.
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I liked Frank’s writing. In fact, I always like what he writes, I told him that he writes very well and should be a great a famous German writer that writes in English. German people would be sad because of the betrayal, but British would be joyful to have one more writer in English to enlarge the collection of great writers who wrote and write in English, like some many others.