Its been a while since I blogged about tiles. But the intention for a little project has not vanished. I've recently been working on a design crammed full of personal meaning.
5 symbols of courage, awareness, safety, peace and love - a carabiner, a (in) tuning fork, a padlock, an olive branch and a heart - woven into a decorative square pattern. Here's a pic of the working sheet and a close up on the toward-finished design.
The next bit will be getting it onto ceramic..
I'm on the verge of qualification (and employment!) as an Occupational Therapist, which is hugely exciting. Equally so is that I'll soon be able to let drawing join my front seat again. However, whilst my brain is still full of theory from revision, here's a creative visual metaphor I put together to understand some of the terminology used in OT. This compares models, frames of reference and approaches to a canvas, paint pots and paintbrushes respectively...
I figure models (such as MOHO, CMOP-E, Kawa...) can be considered as the templates or prompts to aid assessment and thinking, somewhat like a big paint-by-numbers grid on a canvas.
Frames of reference can be considered the various idea or knowledge banks within and from which OT interventions pull their reasoning, somewhat like paint pots full of different mediums and colours..
And I reckon approaches can be considered the way in which this theory is applied, selecting an appropriate tool (or paintbrush) for practice.
Thoughts?
