CREATION OF IMAGES

The birth of the Deborah Rose Images

As we start in infancy and grow into childhood we carry, within us into adulthood, unresolved emotional pain and inner wounds from unmet childhood needs, and emotional and physical abuse. Our adult views and perspectives are colored by a myriad of childhood experiences, both positive and negative. What we learn in childhood becomes the filter through which we try to make sense of the world and all its new experiences. As adults we often go about creating a world that validates the beliefs we developed early in childhood. The Deborah Rose – Speak For Me images come out of my own individual process of trying to make sense of an adult world that seemed burdened with confusion and laden with unfulfilled hopes and dreams.

The process of using image, as a way of expressing my feelings, began while in therapy, when confused and searching for a deeper meaning to my life. A very wise woman, with no apparent art background, placed a blank piece of 8. 5 X 11 inch white paper in front of me, gave me a handful of crayons and said “Draw how you are feeling.” A door was opened that became a Pathway to Healing that I never dreamed possible. The images started coming and just kept surfacing one after another. It had opened the door to the emotional pain of my childhood that I could not resolve using just words. Instead of using words to try and describe how I was feeling, I would refer to the images. I was able to get to the feelings and heart of the issue much easier and quicker. The use of my images became the mode of communication that I used to express the deepest and darkest places within my unconscious. I began to experience a Knowing that there was a greater purpose at hand, in what I had experienced and to the process I was now so deeply involved with. It felt as though this was not just for me, but also, somehow for those who I would connect with in the second half of my life. This website and the availability of the images, in card form, is the result of that process. The images on this site are the first 48 of more than 150 images initially drawn. (The remaining images will be available at a later date.)

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