About the Book
Transforming a found WWII American Red Cross Service nurse’s uniform into the Warrior Suit/Healer Suit over a period of 108 days, artist and expressive arts therapist Julie Püttgen embroidered, moved, wrote, and photographed – every day. She was inspired by the fierce, compassionate energy of the Tibetan Buddhist Dakinis and their iconography of skulls, flames, lotuses, garlands of severed heads, and bone ornaments. This book is intended as a reminder to author and viewer alike of the transformative power of daily, embodied creative practice. It is an invitation to show up as ourselves in the world – sacred, whole, fiery, tender, and more than a little bit weird.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
# of Pages: 230 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9780464911876
- Hardcover, ImageWrap: 9780464911869
- Publish Date: Aug 22, 2018
- Language English
- Keywords expressive arts, Dakini, Red Cross
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About the Creator
Julie Puttgen
Lebanon, NH
I was born in 1972 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and attended Yale University (BA in Studio Art), Georgia State University (MFA in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking), and Goddard College (MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling / Expressive Arts Therapy). I move through the world as a writer of creative non-fiction, socially-engaged artist, teacher, lover of movement, backpacker Dharma bum, companion of rescue pups, former Buddhist nun, and present-day expressive arts and somatic therapist. I've been around the block, tried many things, succeeded and failed, and carried my heart through many of this world's wild, beautiful, boring, terrible, sacred spaces.