{"id":10492,"date":"2017-10-18T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T12:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthohlweg.de\/art-is-expression\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:35:25","slug":"art-is-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/art-is-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Art is expression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">  Conversations without words<\/h4>\n\n<p>My voluntary work in the hospice service gives me great pleasure and is absolutely enriching. For example, I particularly enjoyed preparing and conducting a training series on art therapy techniques for and with our group of volunteer end-of-life and bereavement counselors. As soon as brushes and paint come into play, completely new levels of conversation can open up. It was very exciting for all of us.   <\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mysterious<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>How can I put something inexpressible and mysterious on paper without having to reveal too much? How can I open up a little bit and safely, reveal a little bit of what is bothering me without revealing too much? <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-344 size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Weissinweiss-8589-1024x6811-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7598\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">More will not be revealed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>We tried out the &#8220;white on white!&#8221; technique. We painted, blotted, wiped, smudged and perhaps smudged again with the same white paint on prepared surfaces. In the end, only as much is recognizable as I want to allow myself and the viewer to see. A first step towards perhaps expressing the inexpressible.   <\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feelings are more colorful than you thought<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things that becomes clear in the circle of feelings is how accurately each of us assigns a feeling to a color. Opposite each other in the circle were &#8220;pairs of feelings&#8221;, i.e. a mood with the individually found opposite to it. Very accurate and very individually different. Our own emotional world can be experienced in a much more colorful way than the monotonous gray in which we may feel trapped.   <\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Embarrassing, embarrassing!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Fabrics, needles and thread are also exciting materials. What material is joy, love, fear, helplessness or longing made of? Each of us tried to approach a &#8220;chosen&#8221; emotional state for this evening, for which I had prepared cards with the corresponding terms. I myself dedicated my experiment to the rather unpleasant emotional state of &#8220;embarrassment&#8221;. The result was a garish hat that I wouldn&#8217;t have wanted to wear on the street! A dear colleague then shocked me by going home with the impossible piece on her head. Hats off! I only liked to show it off briefly behind closed doors in an intimate circle.       <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-347\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PeinlicherHut-576x10241-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7600\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anything but a hoody!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversations without words My voluntary work in the hospice service gives me great pleasure and is absolutely enriching. For example, I particularly enjoyed preparing and conducting a training series on art therapy techniques for and with our group of volunteer end-of-life and bereavement counselors. 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