Barbara was new at school and did not have any friends yet. She did not want to share at all after her first painting. Some of her classmates made an observation that her painting looked like a caterpillar. Even one boy joked that she needed to come of out of her cocoon. She did not answer and just stayed silent through that whole sharings. She looked with disbelief in total non-participation.

Barbara was acutally a bit shocked when she saw her second painting. The color and shape looked very similar to her first one. She just picked up colors and quickly splashed it on the paper. She mentioned that she loved brown color. She wondered how she could make the same painting so by chance without thinking. She went into deeper thinking after this painting. She said that this one did look like a catepillar ready to burst. Of Course her classmates mentioned that if she would not talk at all she could someday burst. We asked her if she was ready to come out of her cocoon and she shook her head and said "NO" loudly. Of course we told her that if she ever decided to come out her cocoon we would all support her. Some of the kids also confirmed the same.

Of course you can imagine how surprised Barbara was when she saw her third painting. She did not even know that she did not pick brown color this time. She was very shocked as she watched her painting. She told the class that her painting was so much happier and made her feel good. She liked her third painting. After she said it looks like wings, one of her firends told her that she is now ready to fly. Another friend said this a butterfly that came out of the cocoon. Tears came to her eyes at that moment and she agreed and said, it is a butterfly.

Barbara was now talking with her class mates and in the last painting which was a free form longer painting, she painted four butterflies. She took that painting and came to us and said, "Look at my butterflies" We were so overjoyed and told her, "How wonderful, you are not alone anymore. There are four butterflies here." One of the girls at her table loved her fourth painting so much that she gave it to her.

Anthony was very funny boy and joking kind of character that had an answer for everything. Anthony explained to everyone that his first painting was actually a spaceship traveling into the space. One of the students said that it also looked like different planets all connected to each other. Anthony said the lines were there to make sure that no one will be get lost in the space. One friend said it was actually like the jail bars.

Anthony made the second painting very quickly and when it came to looking at it, he could not stop laughing. He said that the thick bars have changed into just a net that is catching him, sort of the fire department safty nets. He actually saw two big figures that are holding the net. He thought this painting was really silly and funny. He called the men holding the safty net the aliens.One Student said the middle of the net had a heart so the aliens had a loving safty net held up for him.

With this third painting, Anthony was quieter and more reflective. He was not joking round anymore. He looked at his painitng and said "I really like this one." Some of his freinds said that it was a painting of the Sun, Earth and Moon. One person said there were butterflies flying from one planet to the other. Anthony said, " No it is people who are just flying around the planets". One girl said, "Oh you mean angels". We asked him what was the crossing lines. He smiled and said yes this is a cross section (milky way) in the Universe.