What if a drawing could show you something about yourself before you had found the words for it?

This is possible with Fractal Drawing Method because it is not a drawing class, and its purpose is not simply to create a beautiful, colourful pattern, but it's rather a structured self-awareness process. The first - or called recognition - drawing begins with a line created with closed eyes, following a precise set of instructions.

The colours are also added according to the method, but nothing is planned in advance, which is exactly what makes the result so interesting.

When I analyse a fractal drawing - based on hundreds of hours of training - I am not judging whether it is good, bad, beautiful or strange. I look at the movement and character of the line, the way the paper has been used, the shapes and proportions of the spaces, the colours, and the relationships between all these elements.

Together, they can offer a new perspective on personal tendencies, inner resources, familiar reactions and the way someone may be experiencing life at that particular time. Sometimes a pattern becomes visible on the page before we have been able to recognise or describe it in words.

This is not a medical or psychological diagnosis but it is a method of self-observation, a different way of meeting yourself. And recognition is only the beginning, Fractal Drawing also includes carefully guided drawing processes through which we can consciously work with what has become visible, one step at a time.

If your line could speak before your mind had time to edit it, what might it say?