The Dark Side
It always helped me to be surrounded by 'mood-congruent' elements... colours, music, weather... anything.
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Art and media offer a rich, deep, vast space
of mood-congruent materials.
Mood-congruent stimuli sustained me
through times when my emotions overwhelmed me,
or felt disconnected, clogged, or absent.
RIP Chris Cornell. ;(
Often, the best mood-congruent art sources are those who have gone before us, sometimes literally gone, RIP Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell... ;(
They know this darkness ...from the other side.
They survived times with their emotions connected enough to do art.
Their art is a ready channel to our feelings.
Their art doesn't require the grueling energy shift into 'attempted happy place'.
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Dark art is like a soft cushion for us.
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It is like being heard before you even cry.
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Later, I will add some of my own creations in this space too, and possibly accept user submissions at some point. :)