Shawna Tavsky
Art Practice • Creative Education
My work today grows from my art practice and ten years developing an arts and circus center in Mexico City. It is deepened by clinical experience in art psychotherapy, an MSc in Body Psychology, and the lived experience of late-diagnosed AuDHD (Autism + ADHD).
I’ve recently turned my focus to my art, my writing, and Apertura, a learning space for unhurried study of how attention and perception work, through inquiry and creative practice.
Portraiture
Portrait sessions take place in my home studio in Mexico City. A quiet moment of presence, authenticity, and being seen.
Portraiture
Portrait sessions take place in my home studio in Mexico City. A quiet moment of presence, authenticity, and being seen.
Writing
Stories Untold
“She centered herself in front of the mirrored wall, noting the company of a once vibrant ruby sofa behind her. It had been loved, and forgotten over the years. Guided by her slender reflection in the mirror, her bare feet firmly positioned on the cool wooden floor, she aimed her attention to the language of movement finding its way through her long arms, graceful hands, and delicately aging fingers. Although the song of the cello took residence in her core, the dance, she felt, was in her hands.”
Published in Beyond Words Magazine, Scars Anthology, 2025
The Woman in the Film
Katya locks herself in her apartment for seven days to finish the script for an art film: a portrait of a self she wants to leave behind. Dark memories surface. She finds herself on fragile ground, struggling to find her way through the unreal and the true.
A short novel in the works.
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Process
studies
