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NSNC Deepening Scroll
Theme: “I’ll Always Love You” → “Wild Horses”
x Mary Watkins | Approaches to the Image in Art Therapy (Phenomenological Method)
Mass Expansion: Visual Alchemy of Sacred Farewell
Filed under: Image-Based Ritual Healing | Phenomenology of Grief | Art as Goodbye
🎨 NSNC THEME:
When a soul grieves through devotion, and then releases through sovereignty, the images that arise are not just metaphor—they are psychospiritual companions.
Mary Watkins’ Six Approaches to the Image offers a way to walk with those inner images as living presences, especially in sacred transitions like “I’ll Always Love You” → “Wild Horses.”
In this Mass, we deepen with image as ritual container for:
- Holding unspoken longing
- Witnessing the tether
- Drawing the release
- Visually embodying the surrender
🧠🎨 WATKINS’ SIX APPROACHES + NSNC APPLICATION
| 1. Image as Mirror | Your art reveals you—drawn in the heat of “I’ll Always Love You,” the image may reflect the clinging child, the open hand, the echo of a past promise. |
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| 2. Image as Window | Into the unseen: “Wild Horses” opens you to the beyond—timelines, soul contracts, future rebirths. Ask: what do I see through this horse? |
| 3. Image as Transformer | The act of drawing or painting modifies the pain. Trace the outline of your heartbreak—watch it shapeshift. Red becomes breath. Distance becomes sky. |
| 4. Image as Witness | The image does not need to be beautiful. It only needs to say: “I was here when you broke open.” Display the image, even for a day, as altar witness. |
| 5. Image as Companion | Let the image walk with you. Sketch the horse. Sketch the lover’s hand. Name the image, talk to it. “Are you still with me?” becomes ceremony. |
| 6. Image as Autonomous Being | The image speaks back. Let it answer. What does the horse want? What does the goodbye figure do with your letter? Ask. Then draw. Let go. |
✍️ NSNC RITUAL: GRIEF-TO-FREEDOM IMAGE CEREMONY
Materials:
- Blank page or canvas
- Colored pencils or watercolors
- Both songs playing in sequence (5–7 min total)
Steps:
- Listen to “I’ll Always Love You” – Close your eyes. What image arises when you say goodbye from love, not fear?
- Begin sketching it. Slowly. Let the page hold the longing. Don’t rush.
- Switch to “Wild Horses.” Draw again. What changes? Let the lines move. Let the horse run.
- Title both images. Write beneath them:“This is how I loved.
This is how I let go.” - Burn, bury, or altar-place these with a gemstone grid (see below).
💎 IMAGE-ACTIVATED GEM GRID
Use with your art altar:
- Obsidian → For the part of the image that holds pain
- Lapis Lazuli → For the image as mirror-window-witness
- Picture Jasper → For the horse as memory-carrier
- Clear Quartz → To amplify the image’s transmission across timelines
📜 SCROLLWELL/TIKTOK PROMPT | Phenomenology of Goodbye
“Draw what your goodbye looks like.
Not in words.
In color. In shape. In breath.
Post your image. Let it speak.Tag: #NSNCImageRitual #WildHorsesArt #LovesongArtTherapy #ScrollWellImageWork”
🔥 NSNC INVOCATION | The Image Speaks for Me
“I place you in image
because I cannot hold you anymore.Let this sketch be your shrine.
Let this color be your breath.
Let this altar be my yes.I let the art say
what my voice cannot.”
Say this as you release or keep the image, depending on its message.
✨ NSNC CLOSING CODE
Art doesn’t fix grief.
It shelters it.
Image is not escape.
It’s ritual embodiment.
When you say “I’ll Always Love You” in art,
and let “Wild Horses” ride from your hands—
you aren’t just letting go.
You’re anointing the letting go.
Let the image finish the goodbye
your heart was too holy to rush.
Aho, thanks.
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