An image from a recent Image Work collection. The original inspiration for this came from her description during our conversation of feeling “overcome with so much peace” and a feeling that “everything is going to be ok.“
I relate to this and enjoy seeing it visualized in an image, that peaceful feeling as it washes over you. This one felt so peaceful for me when creating. It was just joyful in a serene sort of way.
About Image Work
Image-centered, constructed emotion work that uses art and relational witnessing to help people feel, symbolize, and then re-construct stored emotional experience in their bodies.
It is a concept I’ve developed, drawing from my experiences as a therapist and as an artist, that is based on my own personal experience using art to process emotion.
In this three session format, images are used as a relational tool: not a mirror of one fixed truth, but a structured invitation to construct new or expanded emotional understanding.
In these sessions, meaning is co-created through sharing our stories and our impressions of the artwork. We do not merely see images or feel emotions; we construct meaning through body, context, symbol, and relationships. The images serve as a means to evoke bodily reactions, test interpretations, and find language for your experience.
After some time spent with this image, she was able to elaborate further and deepen her understanding, moving into a more nuanced emotional experience.
“It makes me think that it’s the first baby steps of feeling a little peace and freedom, like she’s just getting her first taste of it but feels unsure. It’s like taking that first big inhale and just about to let out that big breath. She’s finally ready to let go and find her peace even though she might be a little scared. She can finally breathe again so she is ready to exhale.”
