Art in Unexpected Places - Mayher Tyagi 8JCO

ART IN UNEXPECTED PLACES

Mayher Tyagi 8JCO

Art, that word means a lot of different things to different people. When the word art is said there are usually three connotations it falls under: a way of doing something, an abstract piece created with controlled stains and emotions or the representation or replication of something in real life. To me however, art is also the courage to be vulnerable, express your emotions but sometimes also to mask them.

Sometimes our biggest enemy can be ourselves and a major reason for this is overexposing ourselves. Far too often, we overshare parts of our personal lives and these things we overshare often end up being major decisions that we far to often regret. Blind faith in people can be one of the biggest assets we have, however it can be a major hinderance inmq order to protect ourselves and our privacy. People aren’t always what they seem and understanding when to not tell certain things to certain people, in my opinion, can be considered a certain kind of an obscure art form.

Crying a river of tears or shouting at someone with a volcano of rage erupting inside of you. That is often what comes to mind when we think of expressing our emotions however this is not an accurate representation of the emotions, we feel on a day-to-day basis and these examples are not a healthy and a way we can often use to express them. According to Alen Cowen, a doctoral student in neuroscience at UC Berkeley, because everything is interconnected.

” Psychology once assumed that most humans’ emotions fall within a few categories, however experiments done by researchers at UC Berkeley now show that emotions fall into 27 distinct dimensions and often the most intense ones we feel are a combination of quite a few of them. Now, to the expressing part. Putting yourself on a pedestal and overemphasizing YOUR needs and wants is definitely not the way to go about it, however ignoring your basic needs and discrediting your own self worth is also not the right method to use. Each person needs to find their own healthy balance between the two and express it to someone who you can trust or to your own personal journal.

Vulnerability is expressed as the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of emotional attack however when we’re talking about being vulnerable in essence, it’s just being raw without fear of judgement. This is even more crucial in friendships and in relationships to make sure that what you have is real. Although at times emotional vulnerability can feel like anxiety about being rejected, shamed, or judged as inadequate when we are vulnerable and are still appreciated it makes us feel fuzzy inside.

This is what I think art is in an unexpected place. Dealing with emotions, balancing them on the edge of a knife and using emotions to cultivate meaning is, in my opinion, the ultimate form of expression.