Avoidance thru art

I don’t know about you, but I’m a mess of post-election feelings right now. So, I’m sorting them out as best as I can with some good old fashioned isolating and digging deep with the journaling and art creating.

The social media apps were all removed from my phone – likely temporary, though I often daydream of it becoming a permanent situation – to reduce the onslaught of information, complaints, and overwhelming sadness being shoved at me from all angles. I’ve never been one to shy away from sharing my feelings and what makes me human, but right now, I’m finding that I’m feeling very vulnerable and downright unsafe in that openness. I don’t know what we are in for, this future that is now laid ahead of us, but i don’t get good feelings about it.

I’m not sure drawings of flowers really counts as using art to feel my feelings, or any of my little drawing practices for that matter,  but perhaps there’s something therapeutic in focusing on something beautiful when things look and feel bleak.