“My Week in Pictures.” Creative Prompt.
Creative Prompt: “My Week in Pictures.”
Invitation.
Select photos that resonate with feelings or experiences from your past week. These discovered moments can gently remind you to be present, grateful, and bring awareness to ALL of the moments (and minutia) of interwoven and meaningful life experiences. Reflect on the the ever-changing dance of gratitude, joy, sadness…worry, concerns and struggles, that can all be experienced simultaneously within a relatively short time-frame.
This photo project can be used to explore your thoughts and to reflect back on recent experiences. It can prompt narrative and personal metaphors (capturing them for further reflection).
Can the thought or feeling of each photo be encapsulated with a single word? Would these word ’states of being’ make a good title for your week in pictures?
Materials.
A camera is all that is required for this creative prompt. Developing a narrative, timeline, or emotional context from your week’s lived experiences through photos can become another interesting personal creative project to explore.
What was Your Week Like?
My Week… in photos.
My week … being attentive, present and curious, connecting to friends and nature, while also sometimes landing in states of uncertainty, concern, worry, and sadness.
Tenderness
At a time when my Dad’s steep Dementia decline is making his life incredibly challenging and heart-breaking for us, his loved ones to witness…. I tried to capture a gentle moment between my parents in the above photo.
Fragile
Our Peonies in all their splendour, have such brief bursts of glory before their delicate blooms become too heavy for their stems and they are unable to withstand nature’s elements.
Joyful
A dear friend, who knew I was heavily leaning towards retreat versus connection this week, persevered and encouraged me to engage in a much needed nature walk and supportive life-share.
Uncertain
This photo says it all… as Roxy begins a day this week a little frumpled and uncertain, and not too pleased with the world. I had a few of these days this week.
Curious
Just viewing nature around me with care, curiosity and intention - sprinkled with awe!
Reflective
Of course a week does not go by as an eco-artist and art therapist where I do not engage with nature for self-care, mindfulness and regenerative moments. This simple nature circle was slowly and methodically formed this week when I was finally able to carve out some time. Shed, weeded or broken by the elements, all leaves, flowers and petals were beautifully discovered and harvested from somewhere on the ground in my backyard.
Vulnerable
Expected and unexpected. Reflecting a challenging week of worry with health scares with both my parents. My heart feels a little battered…
“You can recover from loss,
from heartache,
from anything that
squeezes your soul with iron fists.
Find the softer things.
Things like plants
and sweet people
and slow burning candles
and long walks
and moving water.
Wrap them around you.
Repeat as necessary.””
There is always a tangible legacy piece with the photo art project as images as the pictures can be saved for future viewing and sharing, or revisited later to connect ourselves with past experiences or memories that inform our present.
