I’ve been holding an art night at my house on Wednesday nights. Most of them do not consider themselves artists. Which is silly, because ALL of us were created to CREATE. We’re all artists. Some of us just don’t know it yet. At the very least art can bring you remedy, rest, and restoration. It can go even deeper and also heal, bring transformation, and help us through transitions. I created the Mandela above as a way to solve a problem that’s been bothering me for a couple days. Why art? How does it work?
* The arts are the language of the soul. In a world where many cry out in pain and fear, the arts are not a luxury, but rather a necessity.
· Art is a universal language, allowing everyone to communicate, regardless of geographic distance, social inequities and cultural differences.
· Participation in the arts enhances the quality of life, especially for those who are physically or emotionally challenged, and who are isolated.
· The arts provide a natural high, a wholesome, healthy alternative for those who have found relief from pain only through drugs or alcohol.
· Through the arts people can communicate ideas and feelings that may be hard or impossible to put into words, such as memories of abuse.
· The arts facilitate the expression of otherwise frightening feelings in safe and contained ways.
· The arts increase self-esteem through mastery of media and processes, and pride in creations.
· There is no right or wrong in the arts, which make use of and express what is right with people, rather than what is wrong with them.
JUST DO ART.
(That’s my new mantra for the world.) JUST DO ART.
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