Feelings

I drew this a couple of days ago and called it "Feelings". Have you ever had a fleeting thought and a feeling, negative or positive, occur with it? There are no words for the feelings. It could be just the way the sunlight is falling on a particular object, or just the intensity of the light itself. Some fleeting feelings are upsetting as they pass by. Some leave you feeling "happy in your own skin". Some feelings are happy, sad, or just like a leaden grey winter sky like today.

But I never had a way of expressing those feelings. There are no words for some of them. I was driving home from work a couple of days ago and it suddenly occurred to me to use colours for description. This makes sense. Use colours when there are no words to describe how you feel, or for those fleeting feelings that are like shadows running past.

For example, at work, someone had put pictures of cats and kittens from a calender around a small sink with  paper towels hanging on a wall. On the paper holder there is a ginger and white car with his paw extended out, like he wanted to shake hands with me. My thoughts when I see this picture are : Is this kitty alive or dead? Does he have a good home, is he being treated right? Then I get depressed for a minute until I wash that sink and move away, and those feelings submerge and something else comes up.

I can explain that feeling, But the flitting ones that leave you feeling this way or that have no words to describe them...unless you use colours and this is what I did. Now none of this may make sense to anybody but myself. But I had to set it down for my own benefit because it's something that has been occurring to me for a long time. Feelings that have no words to describe them. Use a colour