zah20

ZAH20

Zoom Art Healing Project 2020

Galerie Denke is proud to present our latest international "heal with art" project. Stepping into the footprints of Vincent van Gogh this project is using the challenges of the mind and zeitgeist to transform them into art.Twenty Artist healing together over zoom and turning the process into art.

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is also a matter of opportunity.”

-- Hippocrates

Thanks to all the participants and supporters for the energy, time and global opportunity to overcome together such a worldwide crisis.

Reproductions of artworks are available. Contact > info@galerie-denke.de < with the log-In name of the artist. The proceeds go to the struggling cultural institutions during COVID. We are supporting vangoghmuseum Amsterdam that is upholding the heritage of Vincent's challenged mind expressed in brilliant art. (Introduction to van Gogh's painting technique here )

One-on-one counselling and art therapy session with Heinrich Denke available HERE.

> Log In name during Project:

Somersault10

> My profession:

Writer and sculptor from Sioux Falls

> Name of my artwork:

Nostutrin dream

> Poem about my artwork:

in my room away, spiders spin webs haunted dreams, shining sun for hope

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi

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QuiddityAgape

> My profession:

Artist from Erie

> Name of my artwork:

Trees of Blazon

> Poem about my artwork:

haunted moon with pain, tiny fractures in the trees, tear-stained face safely

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life ― to be happy ― it’s all that matters.”― Audrey Hepburn

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SchwarmereiFork42

> My profession:

Painter and radiologist from Cedar Rapids

> Name of my artwork:

Silent Krilidem day

> Poem about my artwork:

unbelieved my thoughts, standing still silent on this day, remorseful to me

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”― Yoko Ono

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Tintiddle

> My profession:

Musician and surgeon from Lansing

> Name of my artwork:

The bloom of Phaleve

> Poem about my artwork:

now in bloom calling, long lost dreams gone in my ears, in the trees always

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”― Tori Amos

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HarbingerOxter89

> My profession:

Artist and pianist from Manchester

> Name of my artwork:

Dippvella rise up

> Poem about my artwork:

lost highway heaven, lost in silence shining sun, drunken thoughts rise up

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“People ask me if I live each day like it’s my last, and I don’t. I live each day like it’s my first, and I can’t wait for the next one.”― Kris Carr

THE BOOK BEHIND THE ZAH20 PROJECT

The methods of the ZAH20 project are building on the book "Van Gogh The Alchemist". This book is a fusion of van Gogh's life, work and ten years of experimentation, how you can turn negative emotions and pain into significance and empowerment of your art. This book has opened van Gogh’s wisdom for the artists to find life-changing ingredients, to transform negativity and stress into energy and self-esteem.

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Salience26

> My profession:

Painter and theatre director from Flint

> Name of my artwork:

Ragaz clouds

> Poem about my artwork:

lost, broken dreaming, the clouds reveal beneath sky, heaven and hell your smile

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“Courage is grace under pressure.” ― Ernest Hemingway

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Mangle

> My profession:

Artist and lawyer from Hampton

> Name of my artwork:

Mushnoxbeery wine

> Poem about my artwork:

with all hope heartless, a glass of wine worried glance, lay down now nine lives

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“It is not length of life, but depth of life that matters.“― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Qua80

> My profession:

Piano tuner from Eugene

> Name of my artwork:

Dumac beat

> Poem about my artwork:

hardest part calling, broken hearts beat shining sun, my old home thunder

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”― Francis of Assisi

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Rutta412

> My profession:

Artist and Painter from London

> Name of my artwork:

Only in the darkness

> Poem about my artwork:

you have lost everything, when you have lost hope

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip Toe if you must, but take a step.” – Naeem Callaway

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Orange13

> My profession:

Performer from Washington

> Name of my artwork:

Gravax at midnight

> Poem about my artwork:

tear-stained face now lost, the wind takes words when i died, luminous midnight

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”― Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”

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BedeguarTrevor

> My profession:

Artist and alchemist from Palmdale

> Name of my artwork:

Lovidem on this

> Poem about my artwork:

luminous risen, a hummingbird a crow caws, on this day risen

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”― Kurt Vonnegut, “The Sirens of Titan”

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LollipopThink

> My profession:

Artist and public relations from Savannah

> Name of my artwork:

Phalure river

> Poem about my artwork:

continues now blessed, the river sleeps when i died

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” ― Sydney J. Harris

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VilipendCrystal56

> My profession:

Painter and architect from Coral Springs

> Name of my artwork:

Broken Welbella

> Poem about my artwork:

leaving home not down, long lost dreams gone in the yard, lost, broken thoughtless

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”― Benjamin Franklin

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Pocillovy

> My profession:

Artist and physiotherapist from New Orleans

> Name of my artwork:

Amana beneath sky

> Poem about my artwork:

snowflakes fall the sky, lost in silence beneath sky, eyes glisten too soft

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”― Buddha

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14ParalipsisSpoon76

> My profession:

Composer from Augusta-Richmond

> Name of my artwork:

In spite of Dippquay

> Poem about my artwork:

Blazing eventide, A fibrous, pale tissue looks, in spite of the friend

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.” ― Pearl S. Buck

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SplatterChurch

> My profession:

Artist and respiratory therapist from Paterson

> Name of my artwork:

Phenin the perfect snail

> Poem about my artwork:

Early arctic bounce, A huge, delightful bowl hunts, at the perfect snail

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“A woman is like a tea bag: You never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

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Gemstone94

> My profession:

Painter and manager from Anchorage

> Name of my artwork:

The Ragacet house

> Poem about my artwork:

Late freezing autumn, why a lower, long house looks at me in a cold way

> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:

“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.” ― Pittacus Lore, “I Am Number Four”