My goal is to document the Arts in Healing programs of both Shands hospitals through photography and come up with my own healing process. Visiting patients is never the same. Sometimes we began creating art right away, sometimes it takes the patient a long time to open up to the idea of creating art and sometimes Dr. Brandman gives patients art in the form of dance. The release I see when patients finally open up to art is incredible. I have found that validation is of utmost importance to the people I work with.
Photographs validate their entire existence.
The more I see, the more I realize arts in healing does not only affect people who are physically sick, it affects everyone involved including patients, their families, medical personnel and artists. These observations have pushed my mind into new desires. Questions have come up that need answers and needs have surfaced that need filling.