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Monday, November 22, 2010

04/15/2005 - Desperate to Work


Second session with M_____ S_____.  She arrives, desperate to work. The clothes fall to the floor, she takes poses all over the paper.

M___ was feeling crazy . . it  had been the first day of spring term at Parsons. She's been anxious about her classes, friends . . everything.

I chose the big brush as a way of letting out her angst. She moved all over the page, upside down, back, behind. She seemed to be spelling out
something very dark.

I did my work, tried to hear what she was saying. Deep from a tangle of branches, out of a caged bundle of dark energy, her hands fly up.

A call for help.