I’m here and ready to share. It’s been so long since I’ve kept this to myself. I think about it, beat myself up almost every day. I’m depressed. I have little motivation most days. Finances are tight… and getting harder to manage every month. These are the things I think about most every day. I’m paralyzed with thoughts, mental chatter, and fear… and I don’t know what to do about it. I’ve recently turned to art for depression to help me with my scattered mind, and I’m ready. Ready to share my thoughts with you, my feelings, what goes on in my head and my journey into what’s been helping me cope. If you’re dealing with your own journey of depression… anxiety… or just getting by each day, I feel you. Hopefully, what I share can help someone… including me.
I rediscovered a style of art I haven’t dabbled in since the early 90’s when I took an art class in Community College. At the time it was just creating these contours using simple lines which would eventually start to take shape the more lines you added. I’ve come to learn that now-a-days this type of art is referred to as zen tangles or zen doodles.
Zen Tangles are what’s gotten me back into drawing every day… it’s only been a month… and I look forward to pulling out that sheet of paper every day and filling it with ink. I didn’t expect for it to have the “meditative” and calming effect that it has. There’s no agenda or “plan” with this type of artwork… you just do what feels intuitive at the time.