Day 4337: Art for health, Claustrophobia.

  

"Scarred, Scared": junk collage, inks, digital.

 

  

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Click : Daniel Caesar, Best Part.

 

  

 

 

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Once a month and extend your life by up to 10 years.

Making or appreciating art can improve your health, regardless of how much you know about it, Engaging with artwork in person, as two bodies in space, is crucial. Research shows that factors like an artwork’s size, or how we move around it, can change how we value art.  You can think about connecting with art the way you do with people. Just as a virtual meeting with someone is different from sitting across the dinner table, it’s very different to look at a tiny image of an artwork on Instagram than it is to be body to body with, for example, a huge Mark Rothko painting. Most people don’t pick up a coloring brush, poetry collection or museum membership for the health benefits, but maybe it’s time to start. Research shows that art experiences, whether as a maker or a beholder, transform our biology by rewiring our brains and triggering the release of neurochemicals, hormones and endorphins.

In response to a growing body of evidence that art can radically improve both physical and mental health in effective and measurable ways, more health care practitioners are prescribing arts engagement as part of treating a wide array of conditions: obesity, heart disease, chronic pain, dementia, Parkinson’s , loneliness and depression. 

The power of diverse arts practices to promote healing, well-being and even longevityprovides benefits that rank right up there with exercise, nutrition and sleep, argued Susan Magsamen in her bestseller, “Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us,” “I always thought of art as a luxury,” conceded Bianca Bosker in her new book, “Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See.” “It can’t feed you, house you or be used to kill predators.”

But she discovered that many scientists consider art a basic human need. “Art is one of our oldest creations (humans invented paint long before the wheel), one of the earliest means of communication (we drew long, long, long, long before we could write), and one of our most universal urges,” she wrote.

Both Bosker and Magsamen recommend that everyone make art a daily practice, based on evidence and experience. Here’s why they see art as anything but a luxury.

There’s fascinating anecdotal evidence of how artworks can act on people at a physical level. The term “Stendhal syndrome” describes people going to pieces — struck with dizziness, nausea, exhaustion, fainting spells or crying — in front of pieces of art. Stories like how a woman in a museum in Houston stripped naked in front of a Cy Twombly   painting suggest that, on a physical level, art can move us to do some incredible things. Entire article, here.

                                                                               I am claustrophobic! I handle it pretty well except in small elevators, and some plane trips if I don't have a window. It started when I woke up terrified and shaking after dreaming I was  in a room, but all the openings were bricked tight, no way out. The the room started closing in! 

 

Have you ever had a dream when you were so relieved to wake up?

Sorry, Mac Pro  is acting funny? Weird spacing etc.??? 

 

  

 

A 2+ minute video, Valley of the Lost Ants,  here

 

 

 

  

 

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