Bilateral Drawing Exercise with Aidan Mirowsky of Little Fire Studios

Bilateral drawing is a drawing exercise intended to reset your nervous system.  By holding a drawing implement in each hand; the person tries to make marks that mirror each other along an invisible vertical line on the page. This meditative process that asks your body and mind to slow down; reconnecting with the moment as you concentrate on the paper and focusing on the process more what the image is.  

This activity is inspired by a workshop at the Newark Art Museum as part of the 2025 Creating Healthy Communities convening and is intended to create an opportunity to try this reset for yourself.  Utilizing simple supplies; reclaimed colored pencils and crayons with 18”  x  24”  pages lining tables that are marked with vertical lines.  Participants will engage in Bilateral drawing on a large piece of paper for one, after the minute is up, participants will switch to the paper to their right and repeat as many times as they want to participate. No one person will create all the lines in the final drawing. The experience is theirs but the drawing is not theirs alone.  As people leave, others are welcome to fill in. As the pages fill with lines they will be replaced with new blank pages. The blank pages will be tacked on a table lined with stripes. 

All drawings will be saved for a future video art piece. The video is intended to create a visual of the pulse that tie us all together like a heartbeat of a Mother with child; but in this case it’s Mother Earth and all the participants are the children revealing the pulse our creativity creates as a community and the invisible line that art making creates as we center ourselves with through art.