Post-Art Clarity

There are so many words said, so many reports released, stating the mental and emotional decline of people around the world. Barely a day goes by without mention of the loneliness epidemic, stratospheric demand in mental healthcare for people of all ages, and the list goes on. The solutions are all offensively simple: yes, of course going for a walk can help clear the mind, but if the source of your pain persists when you return home, how can you move forward? And what to say of the solution to emotional distress? Under neoliberal conditions,we must activate our status as a consumer and pay for therapy, of course! If you opt out of paid therapeutic models and pharmaceutical fixes, you are considered to indeed be your own worst enemy, at which point, sympathy has run out. Expressing sadness of all kinds is strictly forbidden, and still profoundly taboo, regardless of how some may extol the virtues of destigmatising mental health concerns. This is largely a myth; it must be, when we are ...