Abstract
The Past 5 Years addresses the ability of drawings to evoke an emotional response and the importance of regularly practicing empathy. This collection of drawings focus on what a person does when they experience loss:, what they do with their hands, how they move their body, the words they say or don’t say, and how that pain is changing them biologically. Synthesis of representational figurative drawings and anatomical studies work together to fully define and illustrate how pain affects the body. Extensive research on the subject of empathy and its effects generated several different methods to practice empathy, and evoke this feeling. Some of which included, listening to another’s experience, developing a general curiosity in another’s experience, and sharing personal stories of common experiences such as loss. This body of work questions how art can be used to help someone become more empathetic as well as the social and personal benefits of empathy.
How to Cite
Sorensen, K., (2016) “The Past 5 Years: Using Art to Evoke Empathy”, Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 29(1).
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