Status Updates From Art as Therapy

Art can save us time—and save our lives—through opportune and visceral reminders of balance and goodness that we should never presume we know enough about already.

It would be understandable if a person who was at heart sincere and good, whose arrogance was only a habit built up to protect a vulnerable part of themselves, should, as they contemplated the moon jar, find themselves yearning to make a change in their lives under the aegis of the values encoded in a piece of ceramic.

Choson dynasty, Korean Moon Jar 17th-18th century