To those doubting if making cute escapist art is pointless when the world is on fire:
Is it pictures to make bandages and painkillers during the war?
Escapist art serves as a bandage and a painkiller for the soul.
It serves not to make one oblivious of reality, but to endure it.
To survive
Is it pictures to make bandages and painkillers during the war?
Escapist art serves as a bandage and a painkiller for the soul.
It serves not to make one oblivious of reality, but to endure it.
To survive
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You become numb. Your psyche protects you no matter what you think about it.
Trust me. I KNOW.
Soft, cute lovely art helps you lessen the pain for awhile to keep the ability to feel something. Anything.
Apart from
Those who are still able to produce art that makes people smile are much needed and are heroes of their own kind. Because they preserve their own ability to feel
And believe it’s not occasional escapism that’s your enemy.
It’s apathy and detachment. It’s the paralysis of will.
Art helps your soul not to bleed out dry.
Remember it.