Last week we welcomed performer and sound therapist, Chai, to SHARP gallery. Settling us into the room and opening us up to the vibrations of the fascinating instruments he played for us, participants and myself, created art inspired by the sounds and the feelings evoked. Some of us played with shapes and lines to describe the sounds, others emulated the repetition and patterns of the music.

It was a delightful experience and opened me up to considering the effect of our environment, in it's entirety, on our art making, and using our senses to feed our creativity. It also helped me pose the question, how to we generate that positive environment for ourselves, out in the world?