Taking Care of Freedom

Purpose
This activity invites you to create a tangible reminder of your personal relationship with freedom.


Summary

Using a small jewelry box, you’ll build a container for your reflection. This will hold memories, affirmations, or symbols of moments when you have felt most free.

Materials

  • Small jewelry box

  • Collage materials, scissors, glue

  • Index cards or small pieces of paper

Instructions

  1. Reflect: Take a few minutes to think about what freedom feels like for you right now.

    • When or where have you felt most free?

    • What does that feeling look, sound, or taste like?

  2. Write: Use index cards to jot down words, memories, or phrases that capture those moments.

    • These can be short notes, drawings, or symbols.

  3. Create:

    • Make 3–5 miniature pieces (drawings, textures, or words) to place inside your box.

      • Review the collage materials.

        • Flip through the magazines, papers, and image scraps provided.

        • Choose colors, textures, or photos that feel like freedom to you — this can be literal (nature, people, sky) or abstract (patterns, symbols, gestures).

        • Cut and compose.

          • Select small sections (roughly 1–2 inches wide) that you’re drawn to.

          • Think of each one as a snapshot or symbol of a feeling, moment, or possibility.

          • There’s no need for perfection — rough edges and spontaneous choices are encouraged.

        • Write on the back.

          • Use index cards or thicker paper as backing to make writing easier.

          • On the reverse side, jot a few words, phrases, or notes about what this image means to you — what memory, intention, or emotion it holds.

        • Assemble your “mini-exhibition.”

          • Place each finished piece inside your jewelry box.

          • Arrange them however feels natural — layered, stacked, or upright like small artworks in a case.

          • These pieces will serve as miniature portals — reminders of the sensations and symbols that connect you to your sense of freedom.

      • Optional:

        • Decorate your jewelry box with paint, collage, or any materials that reflect your sense of freedom.

  4. Continue: This is not a one-time project. Come back to it.

    • This activity doesn’t need to be finished today. Keep adding to your box over time.

    • Treat it as a living artifact — something that grows as your sense of freedom evolves.

    • Treat your jewelry box like a personal museum and visit from time to time

      • Or think of it as a working exhibition, one that shifts and grows as you do.

      • Add, remove, or rearrange the pieces inside whenever you feel called

  5. Engage: Hit me up

    • Once you finish your first sitting with it:

      1. Complete this reflective survey

    • Whenever you come back to it:

      • Call, text, dm, vm me

      • Reflection Questions (pick just 1 if short on time)

        • What brought you to the box? What caught your eye about it today?

        • What did you change and why? How did you feel before, during, and after the change?

        • What did you add to it and why? How did you feel before, during, and after the addition?

        • What may you want to do next?

        • What books, poems, music, or movies come to mind as you look at the box?

        • What memories and what details of those memories stand out?

Pictures from Nov 7th Event @ Arts & Scraps

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