Feel Something, Make Something : A Guide to Collaborating with Your Emotions 9780593234945, 9780593234952
An intimate, quietly revolutionary guide to using art to process, understand, and collaborate with your feelings, from t
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English Pages 160 Year 2023
Table of contents :
Intro (this page)
A lil’ narrative about what art-making has meant to me over the years. Bring your tissues, it’s a real sweet love story.
Part One: The Feeling (this page)
In this section of the book, I share my two favorite practices for getting in touch with my feelings. First, I use bodymaps (this page) to visualize the sensations within my physical form. Then I empty my thoughts onto the page, creating a mindmap (this page) to make sense of what’s happening in my head. These exercises provide space between me and the Feel so that I may investigate it fully.
Part Two: The Making (this page)
Once you know what you’re feeling, it’s time to make something about or with it. In this section, I give you a pep talk about creating within the constraints of your everyday life. Then I wax poetic about five functions of art-making that have guided my practice, plus the artists I’m in awe of. And finally, I share how to make a studio wherever you are (this page) and offer up some tutorials of my favorite things to create (this p
Intro (this page)
A lil’ narrative about what art-making has meant to me over the years. Bring your tissues, it’s a real sweet love story.
Part One: The Feeling (this page)
In this section of the book, I share my two favorite practices for getting in touch with my feelings. First, I use bodymaps (this page) to visualize the sensations within my physical form. Then I empty my thoughts onto the page, creating a mindmap (this page) to make sense of what’s happening in my head. These exercises provide space between me and the Feel so that I may investigate it fully.
Part Two: The Making (this page)
Once you know what you’re feeling, it’s time to make something about or with it. In this section, I give you a pep talk about creating within the constraints of your everyday life. Then I wax poetic about five functions of art-making that have guided my practice, plus the artists I’m in awe of. And finally, I share how to make a studio wherever you are (this page) and offer up some tutorials of my favorite things to create (this p
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- Caitlin Metz
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