In the past few weeks, my pain, balance and energy levels have been fluctuating, to say the least. As per usual, this is reflected in my work. It's been a struggle to push myself to complete assignments and travel to my placement, and so this blog has been simmering away on the back burner. I've recently started a 60hr work placement at Art for Life, based in Tauntons Musgrove Park Hospital. I'm developing skills and becoming more confident in a working environment (previous employment has never really been positive for me - constantly negotiating with somewhat prejudiced employers and trying to manage chronic neuropathic pain is challenging to say the least), but I am keen to investigate the therapeutic benefits of the arts and the arts therapies themselves further. I am far more concerned with the process behind a piece of work than the aesthetics, the quality.

I'm about to embark on the first stages of two new and exciting projects within the hospital, mainly in the neurophysiology department, the details of which will follow shortly!