feelings
I think of emotions as primary colors. Something foundational and fundamental. The rudiments from which we derive all the ways we engage with, relate to, and interact with the world.
Feelings are similar yet separate. Distinct yet connected. The more complex and complicated mixture of pigments, tones, and hues. The places and moments where the elemental variants meet and merge. Where they connect, conflict, and converge.
It's no wonder then that Brian Eno says that "the only product of art is feelings". The result of the outer world internalized, interpreted, and made manifest again.
A love letter to the richness and subtlety of the tertiary and intermediate.
But, even more than this, "the main point" of all making, Eno says, "is to make your feelings change".
I come to my workbench every morning, often in some convoluted, secondary, mixture of melancholy, angst, and restlessness. Dissatisfaction, apathy, lethargy, and, maybe, even despair. I come here not only to give them an outlet. Not just to exorcise them or give them expression. But to turn them into something different than they were before.
P.S. ICAD - Day 9-11 - all featured collages are available for purchase in my shop - link here.
Collage turns all those feelings into something easier to bear. It helps digest discomfort in the process. 🙂
Interesting article and quality work. “It's no wonder then that Brian Eno says that "the only product of art is feelings". The result of the outer world internalized, interpreted, and made manifest again.” Random thought—but it struck me how this feels like the opposite of being haunted, or having a ghostly experience, where it’s the internal feeling - typically fear—that becomes externalised and made manifest in the form of a ‘ghost’.