the world needs your "silly" art

0:03 Welcome to a little in between video I wanted to share with you, especially if you are someone that likes to create art and is feeling a little or a lot bogged down by the state of the world currently. [Music] I found these notes I made recently. I had the idea of turning them into a video before, but I kind of lost the spark there. Since recent world events, I changed my mind about that. Why do I create art? I asked myself, not having felt a single spark of motivation that day. Admitted, hormones might have been a big factor or the news that has been sending thoughts spiraling a lot lately. Being an artist can be a double-edged

0:49 sword. Having a good imagination to create the things you'd like to see in the world while simultaneously feeling everything very deeply. Imagination can lead to very vivid catastrophizing in dark times. Social media, another double-edged sword. The lovely art communities there and the endless doom scrolling and weird algorithms I can't seem to escape. I lay there wondering about why I create art. What's the point? And why do I hyperfocus on it? so much. It's so silly. My clouded brain reminded me. I draw and paint cozy illustrations with whimsical characters for a living. Lately, I have felt both amazingly inspired to expand my world of art while also feeling moments of despair. Despair

1:37 about meaning or the lack thereof. Confused about the direction to take my career. Why do I like painting characters this much while the world is on fire? while actual people are putting out literal fires. And I am locked up in my art studio and flutter about trying to live slowly, not overwhelm my deeply feeling nervous system and enjoy and capture the small cozy moments in life. But will it help to instead be miserable all of the time and unendain myself with the incoming bad news up until the point of depression? Should I just give up? Too silly, too meaningless. I should do something of actual essence. But there's also a tiny voice that

2:23 reminds me somewhere from inside that dark, cynical abyss that was once my mind and I remember. I draw to capture moments that are outwardly mundane, but they are truly the moments that embody what is important. The small things in life, togetherness, nature, coziness, hope. coping skills for a life that wasn't designed for many of our brains. Anyways, most of all, I draw in paint to convey feelings and give myself and the viewer a tiny moment of comfort or recognition, a moment of awe or familiarity, a moment to sigh and feel something, something besides hopelessness. How silly and naive my drawings may be, we cannot always engage with the heaviness

3:09 of the world. We do need an escape sometimes. And if I can add my little bit to the world, I like it to be a little lighter. Bring my looking glass to exaggerate the beauty that is actually already there, even in the dark moments. [Music] So my brain will tell me my art is just silly. And maybe your brain thinks something like that as well. Maybe the world just needs a little bit more of that. and escaping from time to time might just give someone some extra fuel to continue. The world needs your silly art. Now, let's draw something

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