Stability

This week we use ink and a quill to draw, focusing on a theme, according to the technique of horror vacui = fear of emptiness. The entire sheet is therefore filled with shapes and lines.

She has chosen the theme ‘stability’. Something she longs for and something she desperately needs right now.

She doesn’t know what to draw and thinks about numbers.
Numbers are always what they are and do not change in meaning. They are facts to which no feelings or thoughts are linked. Numbers are stable, are what they are.

So she starts counting: 1 – 2 – 3 – …

She gets to 239 in the time we work. A page filled with numbers.
It has given her peace in the enormous turbulence in which her life currently finds itself.

Focusing on stability, focusing on numbers that are what they are. And forget about the turbulence for a moment.
A moment to breathe and catch your breath.

What a good exercise.