This is the blind lady. It's interesting - here she chooses complimentary colors and does a spiral which is an ancient symbol for the passage of time. She seems to like spirals. At intervals, she asks what colors she is using and what her work looks like.

She goes on to tell me that she is painting from her subconscious. She is correct. Some part of her knows what colors to use and what it wants to say - even if her eyes don't work anymore. She asks me what I see, and I say "a purple vase sitting on a window sill with the trees out the window." This seems to please her.

Her 3rd piece...at this point she begins to tell me that she doesn't know what she is doing - and I encourage her to just keep going. It is very brave of her to push through the unknown.

The new roommate: a 53 year old woman in advanced stages of Alzheimer's. She is afraid of everything. She is lefthanded which usually means prolific creativity, but she gets constantly distracted from work and stops painting. I can go around the table and when I get back to her, I have to remind her that she is painting and ask her what color she wants.

This is the gentleman who built railroad trains. I showed him the bus stop project today and he seemed interested in getting involved in it.

This man is very obstinate. He doesn't see the point in dolloping paint on paper. He thinks the bus stop project is ugly. He doesn't see why he should try to help his community, but I gave him the mission statement for Seniors Making Art out of Seattle, and he tried to do some work. He used his left hand, and then he has carpal tunnel kicked in and it caused him too much pain. It is too bad as this guy thinks so much he can't even play.

Here he is again but now using his right hand, he is trying to come up with an idea.

The group at work.

T does this cute outline prior to doing another in her "botanical" series.

Today I showed T her botanical series in series, so she can see the narrative.