TeaDidikai
I'm too pragmatic most of the time to have art for art's sake. Almost everything is a functional piece. Even the statue I made Deo has a small box in it to hold a Valknuter.
I'm a bit of a whimsical person so I've often made things just for the sake of making them. I do find that later on many of the art items I've made have had purpose, use or function beyond what I realized.
A few of my pieces served to vent and express frustration, pain and self hatred built up from my bodily dysphoria (they mostly orientated around mirrors and were very disturbingly surreal)
Some of the other ones served to vent and express the hurt, pain and loss of self worth that I had inflicted on me in the unfortunate emotionally abusive relationships I had been trapped in, in the past. I tend to gravitate to bad treatment and abuse so there's been far more of those pieces of artwork than one would have hoped. >.<
And with this thread as an example, the ones with religious significance are often made without realizing that they have it. I started making the depiction of Star before I realized I was depicting Star at all.
The artwork just came together and I realized, this is the Star/Radiance Aspect. This is how I feel when I channel it, this is what I see, this is what it is in artistic form.
I like those little realizations. Just making something and realizing it has significance later. It makes me feel like a wellspring of artistic energy, always with a subconcious plan for what I want to put forth. (Except when it's a negative significance like the abusive relationship ones. That tends to not feel so great.)
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