Expressive Arts Carnival Activity No. 4
Welcome to Activity No. 4 of the Expressive Arts Carnival. Thank you to all who participate and welcome if you are new!
This is a two part activity. The activity is to draw or paint your breath.
Start when you know you will have quiet time to yourself without distractions. On one sheet of paper, draw or paint your breath in the moment. Then, immediately after, listen to some soothing music (if you want), close your eyes (if it is okay) and focus on your breathing. When you breathe, focus on slow breathing using your diaphragm; inhale through your nose, filling your abdomen and chest and exhale through your mouth. Try to exhale twice as long as you inhale. Do this for a couple minutes and try to relax.
When you are done with the breathing exercise, come back to the drawing and draw your breath again on the other paper.
Please also write a couple of sentences saying what the process was like for you.
Submissions are due by September 22, 2010. All submissions must be made by e-mail. Please send me two image files (one for each drawing or painting) with a width for each greater than or equal to 1280 pixels (note the new size requirement is due to the full screen slideshow presentations we now can do). Please also send some explanatory text and indicate which image was before and which was after the breathing. I will figure out how to present them. I may merge the art or show them separately.
You may also wish to send me a link to a page hosted on your own site (or blog), if you have one. It is important to repeat that nobody is required to have a blog in order to participate.
The Carnival will be published on the afternoon of September 23, 2010.
To submit, e-mail to: paul@mindparts.org.
Please use "EXPRESSIVE ARTS" in the subject heading to help me keep track of submissions. Every submission will receive an acknowledgement of receipt. If you don't receive one within a day or so, then please follow up with me.
If you have questions or need clarifications, direct them to me by e-mail or ask in the comments here.
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Thank you for another interesting "assignment."
My only question is this: The last two times I tried to send you an image, my first attempt did not go through because it was too big and "undeliverable". The ones you did receive - were they large enough to meet the requirements of this slide show presentation?
thanks again
Great question Shen. I just checked my Mind Parts mail account settings and I had set a limit for size of an incoming mail message. I made it larger so that will fix any sending issues. Though if you resize your images to 1280px width, they should be plenty small (as far as megabytes) and plenty large for me to make into a full-screen slideshow.
Hey Paul,
I wanted to contribute, but I can't do it. I just can't go inward at the moment and listening to anything calm would mean looking at things I can't face head on at this time.
So... great project. I look forward to the next one.
Shen, Not to worry! Great piece of self-awareness to know what you can and cannot do!
thanks for understanding.
writing my post today was hard enough... I'm pretty much avoiding everything else, right now, but I think I'm going to take my markers out on the deck and see what happens.
That sounds like a really great idea Shen. It amazes and inspires me how much into process you are. So great!