mafo ❎さんのイラストまとめ

With the remarkable connectivity the world now enjoys, the heightened awareness of happenings and current events, the broadened historical perspectives tendered from sources here and there, human foibles and failings, I've found so much more to concern me.
#Art is a real anodyne.

Fighting #COVID19
Art does heal: Researchers from Univ. of Cal. in Berkeley say studies show appreciating creative works of art can boost the immune system and fight off disease.
"Beholding #art - has a direct influence upon health and life expectancy," Psychologist, Dr. Keltner.

“#Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”
— Carl Gustav Jung

— #MAFO

Can you embrace the magic?
Can you dance the divine?
Between the beams of the moon comes that which is revealed through the secret eye.
The bridge between worlds, this and those beyond.
Do not limit that which the mind may reveal.
Never disdain the brilliance of thought or dream.

"Essentially, there’s a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct #creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks..."
― Timothy Leary

"I could look at your #art for a million, million days," said the little girl.
"I know," the little boy said. "I didn't like art much until I saw yours. Now I want to paint and draw all the time."
"It's just so colorful," another boy said. "It makes me so happy deep in my heart."

It seems a crisis is brewing.
Would society prefer deranged meth heads or former convicts, now out and armed, knife-wielding terrorists and suicide bombers, corrupt politicians by the truckload, or visionary #artists who bring meaning and intrigue to a shockingly senseless world?

Neuroscientist, Oshin Vartanian, claims that "areas of the brain involved in processing emotion and those that activate our pleasure and reward systems, essentially parts of the brain that are associated with contemplation are automatically sparked when viewing #art."
#PowerOfArt

Here is an antithesis: to the hate, the anger, the injustice.
In my #art, colors exist together, dancing within eyes, promising rich mysteries to entice viewers to ponder things they've never seen before, a state of intrigue where human essence is revealed, an apex of humanness.

Artists are a curious lot, heads filled with mysterious images wanting to manifest in a visual sensibility.
Imagine that.
It is amazing to consider some mental impulse traveling from the cranial cavern, through the arm and out the fingers. What an incredible process it is.
— MAFO