Re:children's drawings

I think that's very interesting. I have not read anything about snowpeople pictures and yet it seems profoundly familiar. Intuitively 'correct'.

I think of snowpeople as cold, faceless, figures or monsters with no arms or legs or genitalia - a bizarre type of amputation by design. The typical carrot nose is penis shaped, intrudes into the snow and extrudes from the figure.

The abuser is often depicted symbolically and in these images, are the snowpeople the abused or the abusers, or are they interchangeable, in the way that boundaries have already been broken?

Has the abused person become a formless being with no limbs, no soul, mirroring the soul-less abuser ?
No warmth, and capable of meltdown- psychologically and physically.

Anyway, a few thoughts, perhaps the same as yours. Perhaps different. The client will know the answer if s/he can find the articulation.

I'd be interested to know if you develop this work.

hephzibah@arttherapy.freeserve.co.uk

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Re:children's drawings, by gina, 10/06/01 Re:children's drawings, by Lindsay Smith, 10/09/01

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