Collage as a therapeutic process and as a way to stimulate creativity, Murcia, Spain 2017.
This video shows the room where I developed a Collage Workshop in the event “Journey of Training in Creative Therapies - Creative Therapies, Disability and Psychic Construction” in Murcia University, Spain, October 2017. This is a model of a workshop for adults, where they can develop personal work exploring different basic collage techniques. In the workshop, the participants, learn to use collage as a therapeutic process, using tools to apply some of these techniques in professional contexts. This kind of workshop works best under de duration of 4 hours, where everyone can develop their personal piece of work, with 2 hours you can only explore a challenge and to produce a few simple experiments.
“FAMES” - Festival of Arts and Music of European Schools, Frankfurt, Germany, 2018
“Identity - fragmentation and unity":
The technique: Collage, Photography and Mixed Media
This workshop intends to present different perspectives and possibilities of collage with newspapers, magazines, coloured papers and your photographs combined with mixed media. These are powerful techniques not only to produce great pieces of art but also to stimulate creativity and personal growth. You can achieve higher states of well-being by establishing a strong relationship with the images, with their different sources, build intense visual stimulating routines and feel good with the result of your creation, and with yourself.
You don’t need to have extraordinary technical skills, and you don’t need to draw like Leonardo Da Vinci, paint like Picasso or sculpt like Rodin, you need to be able to find and relate images from different sources, and bring exciting new visual perspectives…. That’s it! Done! Next!"
The theme: “Identity - fragmentation and unity."
Changing and transforming it is a very complex part of the process of forming and finding your creative identity: many mosaic pieces come together, different worlds, experiences and views get fused, shattered fragments get put back together again in a different way... Transformation and change are part of the process... And yet some parts of you will stay the same... It is fun to play with your identity and your worldview, to determine who you are and want to be... That is the image you have of yourself inside, but also the image that is reflected by the world outside and in the eyes of others, you carry your shadow side within you and have the shadow of your body cast around you....
There are things you see and want to (un)see or transform, (un)heard of things, unspoken things, things at the tip of your fingers, a sixth sense... images formed in your dreams and subconscious, in the hidden parts of your minds... All of this – the way you see the world, how you relate to your body, how you feel and think and dream of different form of your identity - fragmented, united and transformed... waiting to be expressed in interesting art.
