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Never been an art fan in my life. This street art makes me emotional (infosec.pub)

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[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Most of my art doesn't mean anything. I essentially run a procedural generation script like I'm a Minecraft server or a screensaver or something. The pieces that contain some meaning are usually limited to being visually pleasing or practically useful rather than having artistic meaning. The meaninglessness has made me very depressed for most of my life, but I've been making some progress recently on not giving a shit. (Shout-out to Erasmus from the Dune prequels. I feel your pain, buddy.)

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

And that's cool too. I mean "being visually pleasing" has a meaning in a sense too. It makes you feel a certain way, and that feeling can be different for every viewer. Sure that probably sounds "woo woo" or something but a thing that pleases you means something to you. Also just the act of creation can be very therapeutic and that's meaningful in its own way too. I wish you luck with your depression. That one has been a bitch for me as well. In fact I never feel like I have time to make art, but when I do it feels great.