(Helping Others Pursue Enlightenment).
With Project HOPE, I am replicating my own cathartic process with other patients suffering from chronic illnesses, to aid in their personal struggles toward wellness. I'm introducing this program to fellow health care practitioners who feel their patients could benefit from therapeutic and healing properties that are often associated with alternative art therapies. I believe that art can have a transitive effect on the patient and lead to a greater understanding of both their illness and their course of treatment.
With Project HOPE, I am replicating my own cathartic process with other patients suffering from chronic illnesses, to aid in their personal struggles toward wellness. I'm introducing this program to fellow health care practitioners who feel their patients could benefit from therapeutic and healing properties that are often associated with alternative art therapies. I believe that art can have a transitive effect on the patient and lead to a greater understanding of both their illness and their course of treatment.
My goal for Project HOPE is to merge the disciplines of science and art so that each patient can find or discover his or her own voice and celebrate the uniqueness and resilience of their spirit. The process explores the frail bond that exists between hope and despair, healing and pain, patience and frustration; culminating in a work in which the patient experiences a rebirth, entering the realm of comfort, truth and hope.
In this way, rather than focusing on limitations and loss, the patient is free to embrace inspiration and the sublime, to transform and reconstitute oneself from within. View my sculptures and envision your own.
