Key Points:

• Pressure and pastosity (thickness) reveals your creative intensity and passion. Creatives who use lighter pressure may use light or pastel colors while creatives using heavier pressure may use deeper, darker colors. 
• Cursive writing helps you make non-linear creative leaps, while print writing can reflect a more methodical or step-by-step thinking. Printscript combines cursive and print writing and it suggests a creative who can move easily between linear and non-linear thinking. 
• There are 3 handwriting zones (upper, middle, lower). Emphasis in the upper zone reflects a lot of creative ideas. Middle zone-emphasis creatives may incorporate creativity into their daily life in a very practical way. Lower zone-emphasis creatives are often in the performing arts or sports, where their creativity has a physical outlet. 
• There are four handwriting styles or shapes: garland, arcade, thread, and angle. Garland writers are creatives with a lot of emotional depth. Arcade writers are creatives with  emotional depth that is often guarded or protected, which may be a theme in their art. Thread writers prefer to go wide creatively...they may enjoy a variety of different types of creative mediums. Angle writers are investigative creatives and may enjoy critiquing society with their creativity. 

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Before the analysis, it's best to make a handwriting sample. On an unlined, full sheet of paper, journal your response to this question: What do you enjoy about your creative practice?
Watch the video below to find out how your margins and spacing between lines and words reflects your ideal creative space. 

Key Points:

• Margins reflect how you prefer to organize your creative space and your general creative approach. 
• Spacing between lines reflects the level of busy-ness you need to get your creative juices flowing. 
• Spacing between words reflects how much personal space you require for optimum creativity. 

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Collage is the process of assembling disparate pieces from various sources and combining them together into a new, integrated whole. If we observe the stages of collaging in a symbolic manner, we might see how it reflects a journey of self-exploration and self-acceptance.
 
Collecting: The first stage of the collage process is collecting magazines, books and other source material. Collecting is an act of yearning. The type of source material we collect often reveals what we’re wanting and desiring in life, and it reflects our idealized image of self. 
Searching: Next, we search for images within our source material. We’re searching for images that make us feel a strong emotion, whether joy or fear. We’re searching for an “aha” moment or resonance that makes our soul sing. This is an act of seeking the undiscovered parts of our lives.

Disorganizing: After searching, we may develop a pile of papers and images before we arrange them in a layout. This is often what we experience when our lives feel disordered and cluttered with too many options. This disorganization stage is an act of chaos. It helps us learn to adapt to chaos in a calm and creative way. 

Choosing: Next, we narrow down to a few images. Choosing the images we wish to use from the disorganized pile is an act of empowerment. This stage helps us to look at everything at once and use our sorting and discernment abilities to make choices and decisions. 
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Cutting: We may need to crop part of a picture away from the rest of the picture. Which part should be kept? Which part should be discarded? Cutting away part of an image from a larger whole is an act of freedom. It can symbolize cutting away the collective mindset in favor of an individual perspective. 

Reorganizing: Reorganizing is arranging the chosen images into a layout. It is an act of creating order out of chaos. Symbolically, we are integrating isolated fragments of ourselves. We are consciously assembling our lives, choosing the pieces that fit together in a meaningful way. 
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Adhering: Once the layout has been determined, we adhere the images to a surface. This is an act of permanence. It is also a symbolic commitment to a state of being. It’s like declaring, “This is who I am at this moment, and I accept it.”  

REFERENCES:
Collage as a Creative Coaching Tool by Andrea Watts
​SoulCollage® Evolving by Seena B. Frost
Putting the Pieces Together: Collage as a Mode in the Treatment of Trauma by Anila Babla https://collageresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/putting-the-pieces-together-collage-as-a-mode-in-the-treatment-of-trauma/