Photography and Healing. (Artist's Pages).

After experiencing a healing catharsis from pain at a curative hot spring, I edited my photographs from spas around the world into the book, Healing Waters, which won the Book Award of Excellence from Pictures of the Year. Images uplifting emotion are my vaccine against disease; they empower a positive effect on the body-mind to connect with a "oneness" or a "source." Seeing the photographs with light and atmosphere but also immersed in a revitalizing process of rebirth and renewal, viewers expressed relaxation and an immediate desire for well-being. Art as transformation carries the mystery of dreaming in a sensual, harmonious way. This approach led to my courses and workshops, "Photography and Healing" and "Body and Water," at Tuscany Photography Workshops and Summer Art Academy, Salzburg, which include field trips to spas with techniques to quiet the mind and create healing images. My photography connects healthcare and art--on the walls of Bad Sulza Clinic, where patients view the photographs on their way to therapy and in a new exhibition on the water archetype, Aquaria. It includes my photographs along with 50 other artists' works on exhibit February 6-April 10, 2002 at Oberoesterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria and May 6-June 30 at Kunstsammlungen Museum, Chemnitz, Germany.