Painting
Video: Painters Depicting the Yoni
Dr. Diamond discusses the tendency for painters, towards the end of their lives, to depict the Yoni, unconsciously seeing death as a return to the Great Mother. Another talk in the Art for Healing series.
See more videos by Dr Diamond on his YouTube channel.
Read More »“Why Reify the Content of Art?” We have a desire, a need, to anthropomorphize God – and similarly, although to a lesser degree, to reify the content of art. Read More »
“Should I Paint on the Canvas?” Look at that block of stone. Feel its spirit. Then ask yourself, Should it be sculpted? Read More »
“See Deeper by Viewing Upside Down” When I want to study the structure of a sufferer’s face, for this determines so much of his vitality, I have him lie down and I sit above the vertex of his head. Read More »
“The Healing Potential of Art” My deepest intention is that some day a sufferer, no matter how afflicted, will be able to look at a painting, at a photograph, and be instantly released from those chains and so be fully healed. Read More »
“Come Unto Me” “Come unto me”: the paper calls – and the brush smiles. Read More »
Video: Making Paintings for Healing Dr. Diamond discusses the development of his unique approach to making paintings for healing. Read More »
Video: Art as Metaverbal Communication An excerpt from opening lecture of Dr. Diamond's exhibit at the Katonah Village Library in Katonah, NY, July 2011. Read More »
“Free Association”
Of course, I can be spontaneous, un-thinking, un-editing, when I paint. After all, I spent more than six years in daily psychoanalysis saying whatever came into my head: free association.
And I learned from this experience to trust my inner self, to give it its freedom. I came to Know that there was a Power that could heal me if I could just remove my ego restraints on It.
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