We are What We Dream - Feature - TCP

We are What We Dream

A particular state of mind can talk us about something more, something that is hidden, denied and that influences our daily emotions. Consequently those emotions will impact on our dreams. The latter will try to transform in images and symbols all those emotions and the truth behind them leading us to compensate what we lack and what we do not listen during the daylight. The dream will bring the message to the conscious mind the morning later, influencing again our day, feelings and state of mind. Until when?

Leonardo Da Vinci: His Genius in Our Tomorrow - Feature - TCP

Leonardo Da Vinci: His Genius in Our Tomorrow

Leonardo did not care about adhering to preconceptions, laws, dogmas and logical definitions that were considered untouchable and immutable about the world. He empathized with that fragment of reality that he approached to make artistically immortal. There was empathy precisely, that is, placing oneself in the state of mind of others, identifying oneself and emotionally involving oneself in the feelings of the other.

Art and Society in the Pandemic: learning from the Past – Chapter 2

It is avoiding suffering at the cost of giving up on oneself. It is persisting in nourishing the expectations of others on our person, feeding and dragging over time a role that does not represent who we really are. For what? For the illusion of receiving affection, attention and recognition from those around us. But that slight melancholy in our gaze, that sudden anger, that emptiness in the stomach will come knocking to remind us of the urgency of the freedom to be. We would have no faults in choosing ourselves and our true nature, we would not betray anyone.

Art and Society in the Pandemic: learning from the Past – Chapter 1

“If art is the mirror of the society in which we live, how has modern man, together with his innate creativity, mirrored himself in a world twisted by a pandemic?”
If with this question I was referring to the Pandemic of the eighteenth century and I was a writer of the time, which is very unlikely, but in any case, would the answer change?

Reflections for Change – A Worldwide Mirror Art Therapy Project

Take a pen, a marker, painting, whatever. And express it. Signs, symbols, words, everything you are imagining and feeling. And flow. When you will have finish, look at yourself again. What your eyes, through the lines of your drawing, are saying? Has something changed? Are you feeling better, lighter? This is so therapeutic. This is a gift you’re making to yourself. “The Mirror is your Master” Leonardo Da Vinci said.