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(2004)
Jane Harty has recently completed research for her Masters by Supervision
into the use of animation as a modality of enquiry in creative and experiential
art therapy. The images shown here were produced by a client Jane worked with, in
enquiring into the experience of letting go in personal relationship breakdown.
Animation is a production technique, which incorporates breaking actions down into key and
inbetween drawings. Jane has relied on this as a metaphor for the process in therapy contexts,
where a facilitator companions a client through experiences, and together they seek to find
meaning and possible resolution to difficult phases in ones life. In doing so, a mapping process
occurs, capturing key moments of experience and depthing these, and as part of the process,
looking at the inbetween moments of experiencing.
Jane's client "Sas" explored her own experience recovering from the disappointment
of a relationship ending. In essence it was a process of grieving and eventual realisation
of having moved through the many phases of the experience to a place of reasonable peace and
healing. Sas produced 16 drawings, which Jane animated together. Although a very short and
jerky animation (more frames, mean smoother animation) the experience of watching her images
in motion was beneficial to Sas gaining a deeper understanding of the overall experience. As
can be seen, Sas illustrates her experience as a peeling away of the old and emergence of a
new figure.
Motion itself is an area of interest to Jane; it is a force at work in many areas of our
lives, literally in how we move about, and how the environment around us is in a constant
state of motion. But it is the motion within, the flux of feelings and states of beingness
transiting and morphing within us; our organic and emotional experience of motion and change
which Jane sees animation being an effective medium for capturing. This is a modality that
presents exciting possibilities in creative and experiential practice.
Jane is embarking on further studies using this modality and the investigation of motion, working
with individuals and small groups in workshop scenarios.
All artwork is pastel on paper and all photos were taken by Jane herself.
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