"Art as Process" Articles

[Video] How to Survive and Save Yourself

By Cat Caracelo | June 13, 2024

‎When you feel cornered by life and feel scared or trapped, how do you meet yourself and make space for change. It’s almost impossible when you find the story is so big it has cornered you or is surrounding you. What do you do when it feels like there is no way out… This quote…

[Video] Creating Home in the Body

By Cat Caracelo | May 30, 2024

After a time of traveling I’m home and I am excited to be here for awhile… In the video below I share some of my stories about coming and going, landing and traveling (now and over the years). I lean into the conversation, all the ways I get inspired, how the desire to make space…

New Books Launched!

By Cat Caracelo | April 30, 2024

Excited to announce a brand new Creative Depth resource, that has just been released: I’m excited to announce the first THREE volumes of Mythic Living: Visual Storytelling + Inspiration for Creatives. Mythic Living is a series of image rich thematic collections that you can order from Amazon worldwide – order in the U.S., Canada, Australia, UK,…

[VIDEO] Entertaining the Invisible

By Cat Caracelo | April 17, 2024

I am cross posting this weeks video post from A Mythopoetic Life on Substack. This is a short offering some exciting ideas and creative conversation! We are connecting today about entertaining the invisible, how we as artists of life can use creative depth approaches to foster more connection with intangible experience, how the invisible can…

Meeting the Crone

By Cat Caracelo | April 5, 2024

She stirs the soup on the stove adjusting the heat to circumvent the hot flashes that have haunted her for years…maybe it’s just her body getting ready to be the catalyst of disparate dreams, the combustion of right vs. might, the pooled anger that ignites, the rhythm of a wild woman pushing despair into the…

Meeting Green

By Cat Caracelo | March 3, 2024

I met March this weekend with a lovely romp into the wilds of the Hill Country, visiting a nearby springs (there are hundreds in this area). It has been a winter…and I was ready to expand my senses and lean into spring. I spent a lot of time in my studio this week, stirring my inner…

As the Year Ends…

By Cat Caracelo | December 28, 2023

There is much to ponder as a year ends…but I could not resist sharing these amazing memories. It feels like a wonderful celebration of us all. There is nothing I love more that what we create together, The intimacy of process is personal and communal and we are so very lucky and blessed to gather…

Explore the Dark Moon Eclipse + Meditation Gift

By Cat Caracelo | October 15, 2023

Create with Eclipse Energy at this Threshold Time Art by Rob Gonsalves Become aware of what the Dark Moon offers you this month. We are between seasons and much is being exposed, expressed, revealed and released. Eclipses remind us that everything is cyclical, a culmination always occurs on the edge of a beginning. Solar eclipses…

Inspired Experience + MoonCircles as Creative Catalyst

By Cat Caracelo | May 26, 2023

It is a pleasure to share a new video today…some of the early connection to journey work, art as process, the evolution of MoonCircles™ and how they have helped me to deepen my own work with visual storytelling as a creative catalyst. “Expand your Field and more will come…” This 12 minute video shares more…

Lunar Light + Working with the Night

By Cat Caracelo | May 16, 2023

  Lunar Light + Working with the Night We move through a doorway of the daylight to meet the Night. This happens in all seasons and states… The night rises in our awareness… It often opens up, rather than darkening or dimming ones ability to see.   She is always there…in the Night. The Moon.…