Vision Comes True in Unexpected Ways

by Janet Morgan

I used to teach and do visualization techniques for my patients at Sloan Kettering and for myself. Relaxing the body lets the imagination blossom into a multisensory reality, and that helps it all to become real. Many times, I realized much later that what I had envisioned had happened. My partner and I used to write down all the places we wanted to travel, and when we found ourselves in some crazy place we would say “how on earth did we end up here?” … “ah, yes, we wrote it down!”

During these quiet times between the holidays, I pulled out an old sketchbook and found the visioning board I had drawn 5 years ago for a film that never got completed (life got in the way). And when I looked at it now, I realized that it became real in the book that Heather Sanderson and I did together called What Art Can Do. Much of this book is about how things happen, at least for me, backwards, sideways, or accidentally. This is a great example of trying or imagining one thing and it turns into another!

Find out more about What Art Can Do here and be sure to read the great review, “Back to the Boho” first featured in California Desert Arts.

Janet Morgan has had a long and varied art career, involving painting, public art, dance, environmental work, curating and children’s books. Among her figurative painting series are Body Temples, Deities (150) and wild women, musicians, and dancers (Middle Eastern and modern).

During her travels she has painted landscapes from Antarctica to Kyrgyzstan, Turkey to British Columbia. She has been an artist-in-residence at Death Valley National Park, Weir Farm National Historic Site, the Babayan Cultural Center in Cappadocia, Hanksville Elementary School in Utah, and the Luminous Bodies Residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point in Toronto. She was a teaching Artist in Residence at the Omega Institute for 14 years, and has taught at the Rubin Museum of Art, the Art Students League of New York, and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

For 18 years, she was an Expressive Arts Therapist with adult cancer patients at Sloan Kettering. Her large paintings have been featured on stage at the Omega’s Women and Power Conference in New York City, at Burning Man in Nevada, and at the Parliament of World Religions in Toronto, Canada. You can find out more about her and see her work at www.janetmorgan-art.net.

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