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Made this as a project piece for my art class in college and will likely turn it into prints since folks really liked it. Took some inspiration from some of Van Gogh's works as I resonate with some of his art personally.

To quote the last words of Van Gogh; "The sadness will last forever."

Basically the struggles with depression and feeling like you're nothing. For the project here, I've been wanting to make it something personal to myself in a few ways. I first used my interests; which is space, night time, black cats and some nature. Why I reached out to a style I'm normally not familiar with; it is boring to do the same thing over and over again. Plus, how is anyone to learn anything new if they don't break out of their shell? I chose to try to add strokes to the skies and grass in a way that Van Gogh has done for several of his works, especially with some of his more well-known paintings. I felt the sadness and depression in Van Gogh's art, sometimes tearing up myself as I recognize those emotions and struggles he went through that I may also have problems with myself.

For years I've struggled with depression and it both can feel like a dark void clasping around you while sadness ripples into many moments of your life. It's suffocating and not just something that you can wish away. Some nights get bad to where I feel like crying but nothing fully comes out, like it's stuck in some abyss. Things make look and feel so gray-scale and dead while the world around you is so bright and carries on; t's hard to not taunt yourself with the thoughts that “no one care or would miss you”, that “you mean nothing”. I love doing galaxy night skies and wanted it to contrast against the void kitty, who is a solid black while everything else around him is in color and detail. As sometimes, the feeling of depression is akin to an empty void of sadness while the world around you moves on without a care. But the contrast between the cat and the background is also meant to show that while you may feel down and such, there's still a beautiful world to enjoy out there and keep on going, to find something that gives you the motivation to keep moving forward and not succumb to what seems like an unending ghost of despair. Thus is the struggle between optimism and pessimism.

Description
Made this as a project piece for my art class in college and will likely turn it into prints since folks really liked it. Took some inspiration from some of Van Gogh's works as I resonate with some of his art personally.

To quote the last words of Van Gogh; "The sadness will last forever."

Basically the struggles with depression and feeling like you're nothing. For the project here, I've been wanting to make it something personal to myself in a few ways. I first used my interests; which is space, night time, black cats and some nature. Why I reached out to a style I'm normally not familiar with; it is boring to do the same thing over and over again. Plus, how is anyone to learn anything new if they don't break out of their shell? I chose to try to add strokes to the skies and grass in a way that Van Gogh has done for several of his works, especially with some of his more well-known paintings. I felt the sadness and depression in Van Gogh's art, sometimes tearing up myself as I recognize those emotions and struggles he went through that I may also have problems with myself.

For years I've struggled with depression and it both can feel like a dark void clasping around you while sadness ripples into many moments of your life. It's suffocating and not just something that you can wish away. Some nights get bad to where I feel like crying but nothing fully comes out, like it's stuck in some abyss. Things make look and feel so gray-scale and dead while the world around you is so bright and carries on; t's hard to not taunt yourself with the thoughts that “no one care or would miss you”, that “you mean nothing”. I love doing galaxy night skies and wanted it to contrast against the void kitty, who is a solid black while everything else around him is in color and detail. As sometimes, the feeling of depression is akin to an empty void of sadness while the world around you moves on without a care. But the contrast between the cat and the background is also meant to show that while you may feel down and such, there's still a beautiful world to enjoy out there and keep on going, to find something that gives you the motivation to keep moving forward and not succumb to what seems like an unending ghost of despair. Thus is the struggle between optimism and pessimism.