How your Art informs your Life
Often times our art is a tool that can teach us more about ourselves. It helps to unlock a part of us.
Whether it’s a memory, dream, a subconscious thought, a question, hope, or a concern. It can help us heal, find energy, connect, work through a problem, or share a point of view.
This thought process flows into Your Vision because you most likely began the pursuit of art as a venture into finding out more about yourself. Even if it was a subconscious act.
Often, before we want to share our art with other people, we are initially trying to better understand ourselves.
Subject matter, composition and color choices can reveal insights into what we are trying to attain through creating art. Study Yours.
Your art is a tool.
It can help you become a better version of yourself because as an artist you are examining and looking inwards, then sharing your perspective outwards (through your art).
A painting of a vase of flowers can have different meanings depending on the artist.
Perhaps it's a flower the artist remembers picking as a child and it reminds them of fond memories, warmth, simplicity and happiness.
Or perhaps the artist's life has been marked by tragedy, and the flowers in their painting symbolize a glimmer of hope and the promise of a brighter future despite their present state of despair. Through their art, they seek solace in the realm of beauty, seeking something that is absent in their everyday existence.
Notice how something as simple as a vase of flowers can have many connotations - and it's not always obvious without knowing something about the artist.
This is where you can begin to examine your work and evaluate the colors you choose, the forms you create and the subject matter… and what they mean to you.
Before we begin to share anything with others, We have to ask - what do we wish to share with ourselves? What are we hoping to attain through our pursuit of art?
This question can ebb and flow and depending on our season of life can take on many different forms but let it propel you forward into asking yourself - What does your art mean to you?
