Abstract
This article describes the physical challenges of the residents at a nursing home and the art therapy experiences that became catalysts for individuation. The process of making art provided a nonverbal means for these individuals to communicate the profound and hidden feelings of a lifetime. One woman's story, “The Djobbeh,” is highlighted to demonstrate how the work with clay and her associations to it enabled her to get in touch with traumatic memories that had been held close for decades. In the second half of this article is a description of meetings with two elder artists. What was intended to be a single meeting with the centenarian, an award-winning artist for many years, but now unable to work because of failing eyesight, became on ongoing weekly meeting that included many expressive art forms: dance/movement, poetry, art, performance art, active imagination, amplification, personal narrative, and attention to the numinous.
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