The curative powers of art

Art as vulnerability

Vulnerabilty as a word has a bad rep. When people hear the word vulnerability, they think of weakness, of being a target for pain and exploitation by an outside source. Vulnerability is rawness, it’s showing yourself without filters, it’s putting yourself on show. This is what artists do, the good ones at least.

Art is a courageous act of vulnerability: of writing, drawing, painting, knitting the colours of your soul. Of releasing the images in your brain, the dreams you can...