Words are hard.
I stand with this man—creating space for people to understand.
This is an amazing use of what I can only describe as the “floppy disk filing system” of the brain. As someone navigating memory challenges myself, this work resonates deeply.
We are often moving through institutions built on fear—systems that trap rather than help and build.
What I witnessed wasn’t art therapy. It was connection.
It made me ask: what do we call the process of the thing we build together?
ArtCare is a term I didn’t know I needed—but now I do.
Being in a room (or outside), listening to stories while making something together—that’s what this is.
Thank you, Dr. Jamar Turner, for sharing your story and helping others share theirs.
I have so many more words—but I’ll save them.
Love y’all. - Justin Smith
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Rev. Jamar Turner, D. Min, is a board-certified hospital chaplain, poet, playwright, and founder of Poetry Caviar and the Critical Artist Laboratory—an arts-based spiritual care initiative developing innovative models of care for communities impacted by incarceration, serious illness, racialized trauma, and moral injury. His work integrates Womanist theology, clinical chaplaincy, and creative practice to design programs, residencies, and public scholarship that support moral repair, resilience, and liberative healing.
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