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Mythos, please don't feel bad. Its just a deck. Your post means a lot to me though, especially because I go through these "episodes" too. You're not alone and I am glad that you paint because art is my personal therapy.I've seen your work and they're awesome! I can see how you use colors to brighten the way though I sense sorrow in your work despite the colors. I hope art does the same for you what it does for me.
Ash
Oh Ash ... it is so much more than 'just a deck'. And you have read me like a book. Art is my personal therapy too, and I am drawn to colour like a moth to a flame ... but yes, the sorrow is there ... always.
I have given lectures on 'Chronic Sorrow', a condition which people with intellectually disabled children live with. My 33 year old son is intellectually disabled. It is also a condition that, though I am unaware of any research on the matter, sufferers of genetically inherited major depression experience ... c'est moi aussi! I also find that art, writing, making music and so on are often correlated to such conditions. I suspect that decks with depth, such as yours, reflect this in a way that the mass-produced decks do not.
Consequently, the decks 'as therapy', like yours, strike a chord with so many of us. Emotional pain is, after all, a part of the human condition. These are the decks that 'speak' ... and I don't necessarily consider this in terms of readings. I don't 'do' readings, but such decks speak to me nonetheless.... that is except my own.... consciously anyway.
mythos
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