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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



> Log
In name during Project :
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



> Log
In name during Project :
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



> Log
In name during Project :
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



> Log In name during Project :
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.

> Log
In name during Project :
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



> Log
In name during Project :
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



> Log In name during Project :
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



> Log In name during Project :
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



> Log
In name during Project :
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”



> Log
In name during Project :
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”



> Log In name during Project :
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



> Log
In name during Project :
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



> Log In name during Project :
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



> Log In name during Project :
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



> Log
In name during Project :
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



> Log
In name during Project :
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”



> Log In name during Project :
MarmorealCaltrop26
> My profession:
Artist and reporter from Madison
> Name of my artwork:
Salty Flingid
> Poem about my artwork:
Sunshiny foreshore, A common, ready salt squeals, in spite of the waves
> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”― Martin Luther King Jr


> Log
In name during Project :
SpitspatCostus82
> My
profession:
Artist
and teacher from Hartford
>
Name of my artwork:
The single
Scatac leaf
>
Poem about my artwork:
Sluggish
wintertime, A single, living leaf sleeps, above the pencil
>
Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:
“If
you’re going through hell, keep going.”― Winston Churchill


> Log In name during Project :
zda20
> My profession:
Artist and counsellor from Mannheim
> Name of my artwork:
From darkness into light
> Poem about my artwork:
The art of healing is painting darkness into light
> Wisdom that helped me overcome my illness:
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison

Thanks to all of you for your trust and energy,
it was a privilege to accompany you during the time of healing.