I become aware of my body… focusing in on my embodied experience in the moment…  sensations… emotions…I choose colours that resonate  and make movements with the brush to express what I’m experiencing…  I don’t know which way is up…  I flip the canvas… highlighting what feels right… As my mood changes I play with darker colours… I focus on my breath… breathing deeply into what’s emerging…  I start to feel tension building in my chest…I am drawn to the calm of the blue and I cover up the parts I don’t like… flipping the canvas again I pick up a cloth and scrub back through the layers…I surround what feels right with darker blues… I see a creature emerging… “Coming out of the darkness”, I say to myself… my whole body feels lighter as I recognise this truth.

My companion says “it looks like a frog“.
I look at my companion and say, “I am not a frog”.