It is no secret that art helps us live better. We experience this every time we hear our favorite song, go to the theater, put on a new, exciting pair of shoes. Behind every creation is an artist who created it.
Art is not meant to simply look nice, but it should offer us an emotional experience. Art takes us places both mentally and physically. It is no wonder that art is used for therapy to treat a variety of challenges we face every day: From anxiety and depression to PTSD and stress, relationship and aging issues, etc. From regulating our hormone levels to changing our brain patterns and breathing, art authentically helps us regulate our emotional state so we can deal with simple day-to-day stressors as well as serious traumas and challenges we go through.
To complement this idea further, art also provides us the perspective from which we want to start and finish our days as well as maintain the feelings and experiences that drive us.
Knowing that our art can transform the way we feel, send messages to those we love, bring us back to places we call home, and facilitate our greatest dreams, it makes sense that we dedicate time and energy into experiencing and selecting art that we choose to have around us.
BEHN gallery is committed to these experiences. Committed to improving lives through not only the art we create, but the experiences we create in making the art as well. An entire way of communicating and changing our daily experience. A way of bringing ourselves closer through compassion and humanity. Facilitating conversations built around how we are connected more than how we are different and further, when we do discover differences, celebrating them instead of judging them.
We are social beings. Our survival and biology has always been built around our ability to come together as a community.
Art truly needs to be part of our daily conversation to allow us to live better.
This exact idea is much of what BEHN was founded on.
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Apr 24, 2020, 10:39:27 AM
Jim - Totally agree Roben. Even at a base level - if you just think about art as something that makes the room look better - I've always thought it was undervalued. We will all spend a lot of time thinking about the perfect rug or fabric for the furniture, but then we sort of overlook our walls, which have a greater impact than anything. I've been guilty of it myself and I am a photographer! But you are also right about the impact on our lives. There is this saying that "you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with" which shows the impact of our surroundings on us. I once saw an interview with a Hall of Fame running back who used to put up huge pictures of sports legends in his house so he could be surrounded by them an let them inspire him on a daily basis. That's not directly on point, I understand, but it ties back to the notion of surrounding yourself with the art that creates the emotional impact you want. I think it all comes down to affirmatively creating the life you want to have.