Art is a refuge. What does it help you to escape? Or if not escape, what does it help you to explore more deeply toward understanding? If not exploration, what does it help you to express? Variously, art helps me escape, explore or express stress, mystery or obsessions.
Doing or viewing art helps me to escape the frustrating elements of life that I cannot change. Politics, economy, job, family, and so on. And when I say "viewing" art, I mean not only visual arts but also music (jazz records, live symphony concerts, rock on the radio), cartoons, movies, and so on.
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