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Art as Therapy

I often use art as a means to express my internal struggle. In the last few weeks I have been exploring some pretty dark aspects of my self and have been feeling low, depressed, and exposed. Hence the skull in my journal.
I don't think this piece is done. I imagine I need to write over the black background in shiny varnish. Maybe try to bring the gentle pinks and yellows on the left hand into the skull.
Sitting and painting in my book calms and soothes me. I loose myself and the incessant chatter in my mind comes to a halt. This is why I make art, it brings me to the quiet, a communion with spirit, self, a power greater. It becomes a meditation of doing, a salve, and is undeniably needed.