Injury (English Version)

Abstract

Both works come from my art therapy practice in a primary school in Berlin. Thomas and Marius have been coming to me for art therapy for about a year. Thomas created a kind of trompe l'oeil wound in the palm of his right hand using a self-made mass of glue and red colour. (Fig. 1). After completing it, he said: "I'm going to scare my father with this [wound]. I'll take a saw out of his toolbox for it." However, this did not happen as the "wound" faded over the rest of the school day.