When you look into the eyes of your grandmother immortalized in the photo on your desk, it is amazing seeing your own likeness reflected back. Photographs can transport us, offering an intimate type of visual communication, bridging across time and space…
DetailsStepping away from our busy lives, we came together with the intention of taking a few hours to refill our own wells and connect with each other through the creative process…What do you need to feel nourished and nurtured at this time in your life?
Details“My life is teaching me the words to enable it to be a story which can be told. Our journey brings us back to the origin, the beginning. Do not feel lost when you realize you have made your way home…” In what ways can your family’s origin stories help guide you as you build the next chapter of your life?
DetailsI thought I would be the blooming lotus climbing out of the mud. Instead, my daughter is the lotus I have been falling in love with. As a mother, that is even better. Besides, I suspect she is showing me the way toward the sun anyway…
DetailsAt the end of our first oral history interview session, when asked to reflect about what it felt like to share their stories, one of the things that often surprises people the most is the way in which they feel transformed by the process. Questions to consider…
DetailsShe stared at this photo for some time. I gazed back at her, a tremble of lip began, the tiny empath burgeoning inside her…A thousand more words at the tip of my tongue, falling off my face, trying to tell this child the story, of her…
DetailsYou are all mouth
until you arrive at the magazines.
Then you are only hands…
one by one…
You rip, tear, crumble
until the carpet is a lawn of disembodied language…
Are you at an important juncture in your life? Have you recently gone through a rite of passage or are you preparing to usher in a time of change? Explore how your own life transitions mark the turning points on your path of growth and discovery…
DetailsThe creative challenge working in this medium is that an image has to be reduced to all-or-nothing shapes; there is no shading or texture, a line exists or it doesn’t. It requires you to choose the simple lines that capture the expression or the moment…
DetailsThe seed that would eventually grow into Family Heirloom Arts began to take root around two in the morning in my college apartment. I was listening to tapes of my uncle interviewing my grandfather, Henry Kagan, while I worked to weave…
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