Letter of interest
“KCME”
5813 155th AVE NE
Redmond, WA 98052
June 10, 2008
4Culture, NJB Project
101 Prefontaine Pl S.
Seattle, WA 98104
Dear Madam or Sir:
After reading Fernanda D’Agostino’s art plan for Harborview, I was deeply touched by the important potential a hospital can attain as a space of healing. D’Agostino takes into account all forms of healing with which to surround patients—an extraordinary approach given the condition of many contemporary hospitals. Her inclusion of gardens, light, art, visual- and performance-based science, along with people’s stories—all in order to promote a space for healing—resonated with me and is the reason for my application. I would like to participate as an artist in this powerful task.
Since the birth of my daughter I have been researching color as a healing element, using as a guide D’Herbois’s Light, Darkness and Colour in Painting Therapy. By directly addressing personal wounds and processing them through paint, pain is able to shift. Wounds and trauma can heal if one has the space to process them. (Please see my Wounds Healing Series.) Through a Harborview commission I would be interested in meeting and collaborating with interested patients, family members, and staff. I would like their finished paintings to incorporate the actual hands, either metaphorically or directly, of folks who pass through the hospital. (Please see my Trust Fall.)
I have collaborated in this way on many fronts: team-teaching undergraduate painting students, attending workshops in Italy with a half a dozen artists from all over the world, and participating in a cultural exchange program in South Africa where I was given the space for my healing. My most recent collaboration occurred in Salem, Oregon where I brought a blank canvas to the gallery, and through my encounters with people over a three-day period completed We Meet.
Thank you for doing this important work and for your consideration,
Tereza Swanda
5813 155th AVE NE
Redmond, WA 98052
June 10, 2008
4Culture, NJB Project
101 Prefontaine Pl S.
Seattle, WA 98104
Dear Madam or Sir:
After reading Fernanda D’Agostino’s art plan for Harborview, I was deeply touched by the important potential a hospital can attain as a space of healing. D’Agostino takes into account all forms of healing with which to surround patients—an extraordinary approach given the condition of many contemporary hospitals. Her inclusion of gardens, light, art, visual- and performance-based science, along with people’s stories—all in order to promote a space for healing—resonated with me and is the reason for my application. I would like to participate as an artist in this powerful task.
Since the birth of my daughter I have been researching color as a healing element, using as a guide D’Herbois’s Light, Darkness and Colour in Painting Therapy. By directly addressing personal wounds and processing them through paint, pain is able to shift. Wounds and trauma can heal if one has the space to process them. (Please see my Wounds Healing Series.) Through a Harborview commission I would be interested in meeting and collaborating with interested patients, family members, and staff. I would like their finished paintings to incorporate the actual hands, either metaphorically or directly, of folks who pass through the hospital. (Please see my Trust Fall.)
I have collaborated in this way on many fronts: team-teaching undergraduate painting students, attending workshops in Italy with a half a dozen artists from all over the world, and participating in a cultural exchange program in South Africa where I was given the space for my healing. My most recent collaboration occurred in Salem, Oregon where I brought a blank canvas to the gallery, and through my encounters with people over a three-day period completed We Meet.
Thank you for doing this important work and for your consideration,
Tereza Swanda
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