Tessa Groshoff finds safety in art – Thu, 26 Dec 2013 PST

On a white sheet of paper, Tessa Groshoff spills hersecrets.

She swirls, lines and scribbles to tell her stories in the universal language of art that words simply cannotconvey.

Art is my way of communicating, she said. I believe a persons voice can be heard without words. Each stroke is a memory to be created or released, and each stroke has a purpose whether it is dark orlight.

To her friends, Groshoff is a groovy girl or a kumbayah girl, embodying all that was right in the 1960s, including the ideas of peace and freedom, and

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Tessa Groshoff has a passion for art, and she believes in its therapeutic value. Her work is full of memories and philosophies of life. Painting in acrylic or manipulating natural found objects, Groshoff is in a constant search ofmeaning. (Full-size photo)

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Art is the half-effaced recollection of a higher state from which we have fallen since the time ofEden.

Saint Hildegarde(1098-1179)

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Tessa Groshoff finds safety in art - Thu, 26 Dec 2013 PST