Music for me, turned out to be the best way in channeling and coping with strong emotions. It's an activity in which I can lose myself into for hours and not a second of it feels wasted. I rarely write lyrics just for the sake of rhyming words. Though I become really emotional within my expressions, I am a rational and practical person, and I'm trying to make active use of these lyrics mentally, with distancing myself from my emotions and looking at them more clear minded.
Story writing is something that I've started one day in school when we had a free class. And from that day on, I never stopped again, but also never managed to let it become a routine. Basically it never made it to an addictive hobby but something I would find myself doing, when I needed a creative outlet.
The story I am and probably will have worked the longest in my life is a story called: “Anima”, in which the most fundamental idea was a divine machine (the anima), that had the power to change every attribute of every element and material into whatever the user wanted it to be. Of course, there were certain limitations in how far the attributes could be changed, except for one material, harvested from the tree of souls.
As a gamer, it always fascinated me how it would be to program my own game. But of course, it sounds easier than it is, way easier. But at some point, an idea for a game had touched me so much, that I had to find a way to turn it into a game, a game I called: "Ensorena" (actually after months into development). I started teaching myself Unreal Engine for a few months. Later I found out that I was able to do my semester abroad in a University, which offered Game Design. I didn't hesitate for too long, obviously weighing out the effect it might have on my career, and went for it. I went there and learned about basic full scale game development, which made things clearer to me, in what I would need to achieve my dream of publishing a game like that. And from a dream with high urgency, it turned into a side hobby, on which I'm working mostly theoretical. Conceptualized in a way that it would be an “easy” process to develop it on command with the right people and a team.
It just caught me, even though I am aware that I do not bring the skill to create emotions through painting what I feel, due to lack of skill, creating art with prompts, takes something that once was an emotion and though it throws it in some type of shredder and thereby allows to create a new type of something. I don't think AI is far enough to create emotions by painting, but nonetheless, not all Artists in the world created art by emotion, sometimes fake emotions can spark real emotions, and those real emotions can make the fake to reality, because the value of art is subjective nonetheless. And though there might not be direct human emotions in the creation of artwork of AI, it can be beautiful nonetheless, what a learning machine interprets out words as and what can emerge by the conjunction of art spread through the internet and words that match these and the collaboration of what we have created, creates back to us. Ai is a mirror of what is fed to it, it is our virtual mirror and that alone makes the art it creates to real art for me.