The session explores making covers for our books, completing figures of ourselves, or creating environments to tell a story. Talk turns to relationships between our thoughts, well-being, concerns for others...hopes and dreams, challenges of mothering, of sometimes having to walk away. There is a thought trail about being simply a good enough mother. One mum had phoned to say she was having a bad day and felt she could not attend...so for the those that cannot be there, we create a thought wish for them to be well. Talk turns to mother & child, the madonna, the nature of post-natal depression, expectations, guilt, plans for the future, new opportunities, body image etc. I show my shoe box shrine with strange looking figure with a rather large eye and an odd shaped baby in a sea shell...hmm, is the comment, she's rather ugly! A poem is shared about being a mother.
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| "Mummy is my name"...
There is a conversation around possibilities for the future...but for some there are no plans, no real change, just this time and space to create a feeling of relaxation, creativity and well-being. We touch on what we could imagine happening in the future, whilst making paper mache dolls, small shrines, creating a fairy bottle red velvet wrapped person with poetic message, together with the making a one woman boat to celebrate a new phase. Meanwhile, there is an agreement that a camera or digital tablet could temporarily hang off the ceiling to take photo documentation of all the colourful creative stories that are unfolding.
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| She said.."This sets me up for the week!" |
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