Healing Series: Alchemizing Our Pain
Day Three
Alchemizing Our Pain
“(S)He took his (her) pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.” ~Hannah Harrington, Saving June
‘Taking our pain and turning it into something beautiful that people can connect to,’ is exactly what we do when we turn our stories and experiences into books, blogs, art, music, photography, and dance. It is how we heal and integrate life and make sense of it by expressing from our hearts and soul. It is how we let go and move forward.
Back in 2019, I visited the American Visionary Museum in Baltimore. One of the exhibits had just returned after visiting 42 museums around the world. Originally exhibited in 2001, it is now on exhibit at AVAM until December 2025. It is a story of survival and the dreams for a new world told through 36 embroidered works.
Esther and the Dream of One Loving Human Family.
https://www.avam.org/exhibitions/esther-and-the-dream-of-one-loving-human-family
Esther Krinitz was a Holocaust survivor. She met her husband in a relocation camp in Poland after WWII and they emigrated to America. She had a lady’s dress shop in Frederick, Maryland and was a designer and seamstress…
