Mock Client Sam: 2: Circus Animal & New Career

If you were a circus animal what would you be?

SAM: If I were in the circus, I would be the lion.  All I want is to lie in the sun with my family, enjoying some fresh meat once in a while.  Instead, I’m poked and prodded by the trainer, forced to jump through hoops.  Sometimes the hoops are on fire.

 What are your feelings about starting a new career?

SAM: The thought of starting a new career scares me to death.  I’m a sculptor, that’s all I know.  I would not even know where to begin.  I get butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it.  I do not have any other valuable skills, and don’t know how well I could work with others.

Mock Client Sam: 1: Clinical Art Therapy

For Clinical Art Therapy, we are given a bare bones description of a "mock client" (we have 3 choices, choose one) whom we then "flesh out" with our own details.
I chose Sam, male, 50, sculptor, has wife and a son he's estranged from.  Recently learned he has cancer, depressed.  I added details: was unfaithful to wife in past, family found out, hence his estrangement from son. Sam and wife worked it out, but marriage has been very strained since.  Sam has brain cancer, unusual behaviors, went to doctor, found out he has brain cancer.

Directions for first assignment: create an artwork of choice, and if you were a tree, what would you be?