Welcome
Shawna Tavsky is an artist, art psychotherapist, and creative facilitator. Her work engages attention, perception, and lived experience through art-making and inquiry. Her project Artesoma grows from this work — a creative space for attention, perception, and inquiry
Artesoma is a space for people interested in what it means to pay attention.
Something has taken our attention. Directed it, fragmented it, made it useful to systems that were never designed with us in mind. The cost is a kind of disconnection from sensation, from presence, from the texture of our own experience.
Portraits
In Mexico City
I create portraits in my home studio through an attentive, collaborative process that values time, presence, and subtlety. Sessions move at a slower pace, allowing stillness and movement to shape both the experience and the portrait.
The Woman in the Film
A literary work that emerged from an unfinished art film, shaped by sketches, notes, and memory.
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She imagines love. She speaks with death. Her words are incoherent. She forgets things and forgets herself. She walks with an odd, graceful demeanor. Her hair is long, reddish blond, and her skin is thin and pale. Her fingers are bony, her eyes are sad and faded blue. She listens to voices in the walls, dreams of a gentle stream, dances alone, and whispers songs of wildflowers to the wind. Dark secrets play tricks inside her mind as she wanders in her white vintage dress, somewhere between this world and another.
Say Hello!
Whether you have a question, an idea, or simply want to connect, send me a note below.