The Right of Writing - Give Me back my Mo-Jo

Dates for MoJo Classes in February/March    D.V. Classes unless otherwise specified are in the Sunningdale area, along Umhlange Rocks Drive. In Brief, first classes are the following dates: 23 rd   Feb (Princes Grant, Stanger) - Introduction and Reflective Self Portrait/5 th March (MoJo Studio) - Introduction and reflective Self Portrait/9 th March (MoJo Studio) - The Right of Writing - Writing as Art/11 th March (Eye4Art) - Book making, journaling, paper treatments, poetic language. 23 rd February           -    Introductory Class - Princes Grant, Stanger                                     (Reflective Self Portrait) - no art experience necessary!              ...

Saturday was simply wonderful. I think one underestimates the power of time spent just unpacking the humdrum of our life and investing it with creative meaning. It's a powerful thing to be able to express in color and unformed word - but word none the less - the power of our hidden resources. We all have artistic abilities that remain hidden because life/time or circumstance just cannot allow us to access them. Saturday was the last class of the first MoJo Module. We summarized, drew the major lessons from the module on  Accessing Creativity,  finished the paintings,  drew the workbooks together and completed an artists book, titled  The Self Portrait and the Seed.   We cannot (me included!) wait to begin the next Module, scheduled for 9 March D.V. at the MoJo Studio. 

Its Thursday morning - a whole WEEK later! I have a lot of tidying up to do in the Studio before participants arrive...It's supposed to be my CLEAN teaching studio as opposed to the painting studio, but its such a creative space that work SNEAKS in and demands attention!!! I have 9 exciting projects on the go, so I'm taking over every available surface I can... Wednesday last  week - MUCH better!!!!!

A lot has been happening in the Studio - SO MUCH CREATIVITY!!! This morning we were printing the chapbooks for the last session of Module 1 and I'm wondering what the best way forward with Group 4 will be. Every time I tackle a new group, the organic nature of the process is more dictatorial than one would think :-) - PLUS different groups respond in different ways. I learn much as I enter the space of each new session, for which I am very grateful. It's a beautiful day here, for which I give thanks. The 'dream boat' has struck me as something which should come further along, although in two groups I have placed it in the second course - I think I am going to place it as the third exercise with Group 4.  Another thing I have introduced is the preparation of free verse for the Chapbooks - another new thought for the course.  While walking back from gym, I saw a SPARKLING lucky bean seed: 10.38 Brown earth red glint black eye OK - this was the image befo...