My Fake Teenage Melancholia
The name of today’s abstract illustration is “Inner Turmoil Resurfacing In Adulthood”
I remember when I was a teenager I saw “Purple Rain” at our local town movie theater. Living in a small town we had one theater with one screen. Of course they had complete control over which movie we would see for a week if not more. No one minded we were just happy to get to see the latest movie and were happy to pay to go see it. The place was packed with on Friday nights with teens hungry for entertainment. The curtain opened and the lights went down and I was about to be changed forever. I was in awe of this dark, musical, beautiful, morose world. How could something so purple be so depressing? I remember emanating the melancholy in my daily life. I really had no business being sad I had a pretty good life but I used that feeling to create my fledgling art.
As I was illustrating last night Amazon Music decided that I needed to hear “Purple Rain” again and I was temporarily transported back to those emotions. Emotions I used to create last night’s abstract illustration.