Up: [[Expressive Art]] Related: [[Expressive Art Advice from Michele Cassou]] Created: 2024-07-09 Updated: 2025-12-18 Course: Image or Art? with Nora Swan-Foster for Washington Jung [Nora Swan-Foster](https://swanfoster.com) is both a Jungian analyst and an art therapist. - Feeling lost is a good sign that you are going somewhere new. - There is no right path, just your path. - Acknowledge resistances, voices, fear, or excitement. Just allow these states to be there. Don’t try to control or overcome them. In the same vein, welcome accidents and mistakes. - If you hear words, write them down. They are images too. See [[Image ‘Defined’]]. - Stay close to the image and its multiplicity. The [[Poem - The Guest House - Rumi]] speaks directly to the multiplicity of the psyche. Images offer you what has remained unspeakable. - Think of this work as dancing or playing with the irrational. Note: In the Jungian world, irrational doesn’t mean insane or even unthinking. It means thinking from a feeling perspective. - Don’t think too much about what you are doing. Let the spontaneous autonomous energy of the unconscious become known to you.