Barbara was new at school and did not have any friends and 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 the whole sharings. She looked with disbelief in total non-presence.

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. She said that this one looked 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" very loudly. Of course we told her that if she ever decided to come out her cocoon anytime we would all support her. Some of the kids also said they would too.

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 at all. She was very shocked and watched her painting and shared and 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 and she agreed and said, it is a butterfly.

Barbara was now talking with her freinds 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, " Yes dear, you are not alone anymore. There are four butterflies." 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 wre thre to make sure that no one will be get lost in the space. One friend said it was actually like a 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 as aliens.

With this third painting, Anthony was quieter and more reflective. He was not joking. 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 and the Earth and the Moon. One prson said there were butterflies flying fromone planet to the other. Anthony said, " No it is people who are just flying around the planets and Earth." 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.