If you go to an art museum this Chol Hamoed, here is an article to read before you go. (I am a fan of art museum therapy as a thing.)
You can buy one or two postcards at the gift shop and save them for after Y”T when you can journal, and write about them. Ekphrastic writing is writing in response to an image – you can directly address the image, interpret it symbolically, or add dimension to it/expand upon it.
If you are looking for a small project to do, how about vision boarding? (I haven’t asked a shaila about doing this on Chol Hamoed, though).
Recently I took a workshop using the SoulCollage® method. While it doesn’t speak to me overall, I took away a very modified version of the process that might be fun to try again. You know those cardstock sheets in packages of new pantyhose? Save those to make individual collage cards. Go through magazines and catalogues and make two piles, primary images (people, animals, items – tear out the ones that speak to you intuitively) and backgrounds (scenery, interiors, patterns). Choose one primary image (or a few that go together) and cut it out of its background. Choose a background to lay it on and glue both on a card. Imagine yourself into the card (like Mary Poppins and co. jumping into a chalk painting, perhaps) or imagine the card talking to you and write about it in your journal. What do you learn from the image? You can make a set of cards, each one with its own energy/theme.
I hope these ideas are helpful or enjoyable for you! Images are so powerful.
P.S. You can also go through old photos and find one to write about.
