Therapeutic Arts activity with a select group of children with behaviour issues.

Sometimes it just happens: we turn into scary monsters. But even inside the scariest of monster we find beauty.

Therapeutic sessions with small groups of children. Discussion around monster behaviour and why the monster is often so misunderstood. Images of deep sea creatures, particularly the Angler Fish, were used to prompt discussion. We then looked at a photographic cross-section of the Angler Fish eggs, which are beautiful representations of the fibonacci pattern sequence. Over the course of three weeks we made a collective painting of eggs (using our fingers) and philosophically explored patters within nature and our own behaviour. The children then performed the poem, which we wrote together.

A Monster's Beauty

F   or some will see disorder, chaos and anarchy—

I   n other light they'll hear a humble symphony: 

B  eauty spun in spirals, expanding secretly   

O   n every turn I grow, in my humanity. 

N   ot that I may stumble in my ability; 

A  nger blinds me sometimes (I act haphazardly).

C  louded by a storm of fear, of pure delinquency,

C  ourage guides me still ahead, expands invisibly.

I  do hope you recognise my magnanimity!