Falling Into Darkness

[DarklyRuby]

I just feel so down and alone that I don't know what to do. All I do is work and drink coffee. I'm at a total loss. My art still isn't working out for me. I just want to lie in bed and cry.

[SubduedBlues]

Our art captures our moods and our emotions from our souls from how we are at the time that we convey them to our chosen medium of communication to our audience. For me it is in acrylics, for others it's in sculpture. It is not that your art is not working out for you, it is that your art is communicating a mood/emotion/feeling other than that you wish to communicate.

Even the great Pablo Picasso had his blue period, where his works of art where inspired by his depressive state; as influenced by his journey through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. Perhaps you need to allow your art to take on this new form, to communicate how you are feeling today, perhaps this is your blue period?  

[Neil_1]

Hi Ruby

Just another thought on this might be to just give the art away for a short time.  Hey, just a week.  No thinking of it, if possible.  Just try and see if you can focus on something a little different for a short time.  Perhaps some exercise regime;  walking - bike riding - perhaps you have a garden where you could potter around in.

Maybe get yourself a really interesting book to get involved in.

I've actually bought the book "Game Of Thrones" last week, and having never seen any of the shows, so I'm going into it totally brand new;  I'm really enjoying it.

Anyway, just some thoughts of alternative things that might interest you at this time.  Thanx also for coming back and posting again.

Neil

[geoff]

dear Ruby, thanks for being able to trust this site and how you are feeling.

When we have depression or the on-coming of this illness the best things that we used to love so much, either for work, or as a hobby, or some way to relax suddenly becomes a interest we now find a chore, then we have a big problem, and what it means is that depression has started to take over, so this is a great concern for those of us who have been through exactly the same.

I gather that you do art as a job, part time or maybe full time, so there are many percussions that lead onto with this, so we understand how you are feeling , because we have all been though similar circumstances, so you have been brave enough to ask us for help, so we would love you to get back to us. L Geoff. x