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During the Graduate Diploma in Anthroposophical Nursing seminar four, Art tutor Maria Melino worked with students on the series, “the Passing of the Day”, with chalk pastel in a technique she calls dry painting. The theme for the seminar was of Death and Dying and the nurses role in caring for this process.
"Each nurse completed a full series from sunrise through darkness through to sunrise again. These 24 hours, the cosmic day, were captured at eight different intervals. Each of these works evoked and echoed for students the moods, the physical places they had been, the seasons, the stages of life and took on a personal, meditative quality.
Throughout the process there were points of recognition. For one nurse, currently working nightshift, her reflections were “I have seen this! I know this! I will look for it tomorrow”. The nurses were enriched by the awakening to colour moods that live within all of us. "
Quotes Maria works with:
“As we have been placed in the world, as we are born into it, we split the world in two. The fact is that we have the world-content, as it were, here with us. Since we came into the world as human beings, we divide the world-content into observation which appears to us from the outside, and the idea-world which appears to us from the inner soul. The matter is this: I look at the visible world, it is everywhere incomplete. I myself with my whole existence have arisen out of the world, to which the visible world also belongs. Then I look into myself and see just what is lacking in the in the visible world. I have to join together through my own self, since I have entered the world, what has been separated into two branches. I gain reality by working for it.”
Thus, we are born out of a world of soul and spirit-existence into the sense-existence of our physical bodies. In the moment of birth we split our world in two. Hence-forward we experience an inner and an outer life. In the inner life of feeling in sleep and in dreams, we experience the life of soul which is our inheritance from before birth. We experience the spirit in the idea, the element of truth and spiritual reality in our thinking. In the outer world we learn gradually objective perception and objective reasoning.
– ‘Gladys Mayer, “Colour and Healing” How to Understand Colours and use them for Health and Healing’
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