COLORS, HEALING AND BEYOND.
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By Helen Kagan PhD
“Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso
In today’s “new normal”, where we’re often navigating complex emotional, mental, and spiritual challenges, I believe a multidisciplinary approach to healing is essential. Human experience cannot be reduced to a single dimension; it’s an intricate synergistic integration of mind, body, emotion, and energy creating a truly holistic Path to well-being.
I am Helen Kagan, PhD, a healing artist who’s been developing and practicing my unique concept and venue HealingArts for over 30 years. A scientist, psychologist, holistic therapist, coach, artist, author, a pioneer in intentional creating art for healing, my HealingArts™ is an integration of Art of Healing, Expressive Arts and Fine Art, as I believe in inter-connectedness of mind-body-spirit-soul and in art as a catalyst for healing individuals, society, and environment.
My own life Journey happened to be about resilience, survival, determination, and a quest for freedom. Creativity & Self-expression, Faith & Gratitude, intentional Evolving (thanks to multitude of challenges!) - aren’t just some abstract concepts, but very realities of my Journey. My quest leading to this profound understanding was not linear - growing up in a Communist State of what then was the USSR where oppression and control were a daily reality, formed my beliefs, values, and a great respect for freedom to express yourself. I immigrated to USA as a refugee, with a very limited baggage - my Jewish heritage, 3 graduate degrees, 0 English, $100, 2 small suitcases, and an unending thirst to explore the World and its meaning.
The further I am on my Journey, the more my art ascends to higher vibrations and reflects higher dimensions of Being. It reflects an existential view on life, a desire to bridge Realities and heal the Past. Communicating on subliminal levels my artworks deliver Love & Healing through positively charged intention, healing frequencies of color, embedded spiritual messages, sacred geometry, and energy balance, which brings you in touch with your own Quest, and facilitates your own healing Journey.
I believe it is critically important for a Visionary artist to have a strong and unique message we communicate to others. A message that can touch people’s Souls, uplift your Spirit, and warm your Heart. This is how I understand the Purpose and Mission of my HealingArts™ - which first became an authentic source for my own healing that I’ve been bringing to the world since, offering my unique way of healing through art.
As a Healing Artist and a Complex-PTSD survivor who dedicated my life helping others, I believe it’s my duty to create art for healing, especially in our trying times, amid World-wide multiple crises, wars, fear, pandemics, anxiety, stress & uncertainty.
I’m developing my newest creation - Wearable HealingArts® integrating healing, arts, fashion, and design - which contributes to individuals and families’ wellbeing by offering one-of-a-kind beautiful sophisticated yet affordable “healing tool” - as clothing, accessories, foot-ware, pet-ware, and multiple household items. I envision bringing my unique “wearables”- colorful healing designer clothes & homeware made of my original art - not only to art lovers and collectors to enjoy wearing and using these beautiful creations in their homes or offices, but to create hospital-ware and hotel-ware for HealthCare & Hospitality facilities to make my Wearable HealingArts® available to patients, clients, visitors, guests, staff working long shifts - all to enhance healing & wellbeing.
Not easily categorized, my art is transformational, introspective, vibrant, multidimensional, and healing. A first-generation Russian-American, I bring my unique point-of-view that conveys depth and understanding of spiritual concepts and messages, of current turbulent times, of sensitive Souls, not foreign to the colorful abstraction of contemporary and Russian artistic traditions. It reflects deep existential expressionist emotionality while communicating wellbeing and creating an enchanting unforgettable healing experience; it facilitates your own transformational Journey to a healthier happier You, and deepening understanding of your TrueSelf. It brings Harmony, Light, Love, and Peace.
I do believe art heals, I live through art – it’s my spiritual path, transformational process, a way of being. What makes my art transformational for others? The same what it did for me – it creates a colorful sacred high-vibrational space to feel good, evolve, enhance well-being, bring love and gratitude to feel authentic, joyful, and alive.
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