It was the middle a weekend afternoon and Torin Radley, a teenage artist, was excited about making a new “Dungeons and Dragons” character. Radley started to draw the characters to try and relieve their anticipation in making it. When they were done, Radley had made something they liked.
Many people use art to do various things. Some use it to express feelings and some just to create. These reasons vary from person to person along with the emotions behind the thing they end up making.
“It’s kind of always been a thing I wanted to do,” said sophomore Z Freed. “I would always see old stuff in the attic, things like my grandma’s old crochet. I’d go online since YouTube was starting to get big and see ‘Oh woah these are cool: these are crochet patterns. I wanna try doing that.'”
Another example of such expression is music. Music, like any type of art, can carry the creator’s emotions and share those feelings with others. In a way, listening to music can be considered listening to the expressions of the composer behind it.
“Before, I thought art was something people would do because they were bored,” said freshman Dimitri Burks. “Now, I think it’s just something you can do to generally express how you feel, and you don’t even have to show it to anybody and you can keep it to yourself if you want to.”
According to Art and Emotion by the Internet Encyclopedia of philosophy, emotions are generally part of interacting with art, even ones with more negative connotations like anger and sadness.
Art, being something inexplicably tied with emotion, is something some people use to vent their bottled-up emotions. For Freed, the artistic outlet is music.
“The music I listen to really influences the music I try to make,’ said Freed. ‘I’m like, ‘okay, this was a big emotion,’ or ‘this was a cool thing that happened to either write a song about or crochet to.'”
Art is a universal language, as it allows us to express and connect with others. Students and anyone with any kind of background can interpret art for the possible story or emotions behind it.
