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“When the World is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around”
I’ve never really been a fan of the artwork of Hieronymus Bosch, but I must say that on a day-to-day basis right now, his work seems eerily prescient.
I chose the above triptych, perhaps the most famous of his pieces, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” precisely BECAUSE there is SO MUCH going on within the work itself — you could literally spend hours looking at it (and I should know, because I have) and still not fully be able to take everything in. There’s this sense of claustrophobia, as well as doom and yet also strangely enough, some kind of calm amidst the cacophony of it all.
This painting is often how it feels to exist in the world right now, to me.
It’s overwhelming and there is no seeming respite, unless one becomes a complete hermit and disconnects entirely from the digital world onslaught.
Pretty much everyone I know right now (including myself) are having problems with sleep: not enough sleep, waking up in the middle of the night and being unable to fall back asleep quickly or having rather vivid and disturbing dreams. The only real comfort seems to be either in nature, being around animals and spending time connecting with friends. That’s it.
