Post by Silvia Hartmann

I got to thinking about "the Click" from Modern Energy Art. This is a most curious thing. When you give someone (anyone I've ever met) a pen and a canvas and tell them to draw an Art Solutions squiggle on it, like "I want to make something that will cheer up Aunt Betty in the hospital," this creates segments as the lines cross. 

If you now ask them what colour a particular segment should be, of course they tell you that they don't know, no idea. WTF kind of question is that even. Then you tell them that we'll paint it black, or pink and they literally react like the cartoon cat with its tail in the electrical outlet. "Are you insane? No! That is so wrong! Eeeek! Aaargh!" 

Play a game of cold, warm, hot, bingo and the "right colour gets to be on the segment." Smiles. Relaxation, satisfaction, happiness. 

There can only be one explanation for this. There is a part of them who knows, and uses emotions as a compass to guide them to the right colour for an abstract segment that was created because lines crossed because their hand made a squiggle because you gave the instruction to make something extremely specific for an extremely specific purpose. And you can play that game with kids, adults, tribal people, scientists. 

Isn't that wild?