Reaching out - Michèle Wood

I contacted internationally renowned art therapist Michèle Wood for some input into the Senses of Tumour project. Following our initial discussion, Michèle invited me to submit a proposal to present APPerception: Pathotones (Senses of Tumour) at Digital International Creative Arts Therapies Symposium (DICATS), a unique web-based symposium aiming to bring together creative arts therapists and interdisciplinary innovators across the world.

Notes from discussion:

MW: I really like your work.

AM: Has there been anything like APPerception: Pathotones (Senses of Tumour) tried before?

MW: You could have a look at Ivor Williams’ App, Cove – music and mood. Your idea would work only through consultation with the patient: What is their relationship with technology? (Digital technology and new media, immersive technology, in relation to health). Some people are concerned about carcinogenic effects of technology (e.g. mobile phones when asleep).

What would drive people to use the App? Visualisations have mixed results. Patients can be focused so much that it becomes a distraction. I work at an adult hospice using iPad’s for art making, in mental health and with young patients.

You are coming from a personal angle and could help share the lived experience.

Feel free to talk, or not talk.

Further dialogue:

Read here my response to Michèle’s Churchill Fellowship, Art therapy: digital devices, tablet computers, palliative care, chronic illness.