ABSTRACT
This chapter helps creatives connect with their senses and the season as a vehicle for building personal meaning in the work. By connecting the physical and mental associations, new creative sparks fly and inspired, meaningful action can take place. Creatives are prompted to bring their awareness to the changing seasons by first sitting down to journal their responses to some questions. Next, they are asked to gather physical materials that relate to the thoughts and feelings that came up in the journaling exercise. The mental associations that arise bring additional meaning to the still-life objects they gather. When studied together, the answers to their questions and the objects they’ve gathered are potentially worthy of further reflection and creative action. With several older clients who were struggling with whether their art practice was still meaningful to them, this exercise helped them find a way back to just seeing and creating in a simple way.
