“ Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it ” - Proverbs 4:23
Mission
Christine believes that everyone has the capacity to create and transform. Paper-Scissors-Hand literally means art in action. With tools & paper given to our hands, we are able to make shapes, color and forms. As we draw and paint, we do it non-judgmentally. Our hands and brain connects so does the body and the mind. Thoughts and emotions whether positive or negative can be externalized on paper in a safe way.
Christine values both the process of art making and its outcome - artwork. A good piece of artwork is the result of a genuine making process which often has a story to be told. It is an exploration of one’s inner journey, the ultimate interpretation and ownership of the artwork.
Goal
To facilitate individuals/community through the process of art making, emotional support, help them to discover their inner resource and strength, from where they get heal, restart, and reorient.
Approach
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul” - Theodore Dreiser
Directive
Colour therapy is for those who want to increase awareness for emotion through working with colour. Active imagination & line drawing, helps to maintain simple focus and develop a sense of control.
Non Directive
Painting with theme, for those who want to address disturbed emotion known or unknown, or major events in life. It is free to experiment and explore by choice.
Integration
Integrating bad experience is difficult but it is important for us to learn as it is part of our living life. When we get stressed or hurt, we tend to disconnect and freeze the feeling inside ourselves. The negative emotion will be stuck in our body if we leave it unattended for too long. Subsequently this leads to many behavioral & mental issues which could possibly prevent us from enjoying life to the full.
Other areas such as Identity, relationships, values, achievements are issues that we will encounter in our lifetime. Hence by the creative process of working on art which bringing individuals into light about who they are, where they have come from, where they are now, where they are going and ultimately, make sense of it.