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The adolescent subject faced with issues of changes associated with adolescence is in the throes of what, in the object relation, comes from a necessary loss. When separation as a process cannot be dialectized, the subject is in a position of submission and locked up within an enclosure. Workshops conducted by artists in a day-hospital are aimed at opening up a space for creativity where such lock-down has occurred. Supports ensured by the artist carry out a “portage,” understood as holding and , handling in the sense that the artist establishes an encounter using a subject matter that he carries psychically and is receptive to the lines and sketches of the adolescent’s formations.