Winds of Attachment Painting

Set to music on my website as part of an ensemble. This artwork is about a bonding experience – a shared experience. It shows the shape of a relationship in the bonding process. The relationship bonding extends to parents not in the picture. This baby is not a stand-alone entity. The children came with parents. The clean nappy (diaper) is symbolic of ongoing (and close) parental care and protection. Thus the bonding to parents is implied in the painting. This shared family experience is shaping all the relationships, for good, with lasting form. “An ‘enriched’ environment offers new experiences that are strong in combined social, physical, cognitive and sensory interaction,” Dr. Margot Sunderland, a child psychotherapist and Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health, wrote for the Telegraph. “Vacations provide kids with all kind of enriching experiences (like making sandcastles with mom and dad) that aid in cognitive development and helps with frontal lobe growth. “If you are choosing between buying your child a tablet or taking them on a family holiday, consider the profound effects on bonding and brain development; there is no competition,” Sunderland writes. Plus, playing on the beach or running off with the family on a hiking adventure activate systems in a child’s brain (and our own) that trigger neurochemicals including oxytocin and dopamine. “They reduce stress and activate warm, generous feelings towards each other and a lovely sense that all is well in the world. With all the anti-stress aspects of these systems firing, family members get to emotionally refuel,” Sunderland writes.” (1) Oh, and one last thing. The title refers to John Bowlby’s attachment theory (1969). Bowlby defined attachment as a ‘lasting psychological connectedness between human beings.’ (2)

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:23.6 W x 35.4 H x 0.4 D in

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