Daily Nourishment for November 9, 2024: When Art Helps You Belong
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 10-15 minutes
If you want to feel less alone in your creative work, engage with others’ art.
Pause.
Look at this art, A Lady Writing by Johannes Vermeer, for two minutes.
Prompt.
Return your gaze to the Vermeer painting and consider these two questions: What is your relationship with the woman in this painting? What is she asking of you?
Write a response to these questions for five minutes.
Practice.
Sit with a favorite work of art or a favorite book or song and consider similar questions: What is your relationship with a primary component of this favorite work of art? What is it asking of you?
Write a response to these questions for five minutes.
Want More?
Read “How to Look at a Painting”
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Today’s Daily Nourishment was provided by Lauren Winner. Lauren Winner is a writer, professor, Episcopal Priest, & spiritual director.
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