AMELIA FAIS HARNAS CUEVA
  • Artwork
    • 2022 - Rite Mendica
    • 2019 - Histology Series
    • 2019 - Deeply Held
    • 2019 - The Merism
    • 2019 - Drink a Measure Round
    • 2018 - Figure Studies
    • 2016 - #nomakeup
    • 2014 - Razzle Dazzle
    • 2014 - Familiarity Series
    • 2012 - Damiani Wine Stains
    • 2010 - The First Wine Stains
    • 2003 - 2018 Sketchbook Excerpts
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LEVOMYAL
ACCEPTANCE in tablet form
Anti-perfectionism, self-compassion
​Click here for digital leaflet.

it doesn't have to be perfect to BE MEANINGFUL & INTRIGUING

Music
​Nyokabi Kariuki | Equator Song
2022, Equator Song

in fact, making a mess can be liberating


Instructions

  • Say out loud: “I give myself permission to make a mess and to leave it.”
  • Choose as many options as you want that might feel really good to do:
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  1. Go outdoors & gather up leaves and sticks and stones and whatever else that is on the ground and then throw it around somewhere else. 
  2. Open up a fresh email and then just mash the keyboard for as long as you need. Send it to [email protected].
  3. Take a sheet of paper and scribble & scrawl on it. Then crumple it up and throw it away.
  4. Put on a favorite dancing song and just thrash around without trying to look good or even stay on the beat. Just jump and wiggle and throw your hands around and kick and whatever.
  5. Get into your car and drive to wherever but scream and yell at the top of your lungs whatever you need to scream and yell.

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Cultural touchstones with "mistakes" that actually make them more interesting & lovable:
  • Pretty much anything The Beatles did...
  • And then all of these famous songs
  • North by Northwest when the kiddo in the background plugs his ears before we hear the gunshot
  • Oh yes, that scene in LOTR when Aragorn kicks the helmet and screams because the actor actually broke his toes
  • Alexander Fleming accidentally forgot a petri dish on his cluttered desk, leading him towards the discovery of penicillin
  • Bach sold his music as paper to the butcher (check out this amazing mistake-filled video about it)
© Amelia Fais Harnas Cueva, 2003 - 2025
  • Artwork
    • 2022 - Rite Mendica
    • 2019 - Histology Series
    • 2019 - Deeply Held
    • 2019 - The Merism
    • 2019 - Drink a Measure Round
    • 2018 - Figure Studies
    • 2016 - #nomakeup
    • 2014 - Razzle Dazzle
    • 2014 - Familiarity Series
    • 2012 - Damiani Wine Stains
    • 2010 - The First Wine Stains
    • 2003 - 2018 Sketchbook Excerpts
  • About
  • CV
  • Contact