Description
Only Happy When it Rains
We all know someone like this. Or maybe you are personally like this. Some people are only happy when things get complicated. Only happy when the news is bad. But why does it feel so good to feel so sad? It just doesn’t make sense to most of us. The melancholic longing and desire for sadness is both confusing and not recommended to sustain long-term happiness. I am also not a doctor, keep in mind. But who are these pour souls who enjoy the misery pouring down like rain? Enjoying and actively encouraging drama. Apparently, you got to keep it going or life becomes too dull, too boring? Man, this sounds complicated.
Saudade Feelings
Being saudade describes a feeling of both being happy and sad at the same time. Most people would call this ‘bittersweet’ but there is more to it. The constant yearning for the return of what is now gone. The comforting feel of nostalgia but always accompanied by the sadness it eventually brings. Feelings, experiences, or events which once brought excitement, unfortunately now trigger the sense of sadness and separation from those once joyous sensations. It’s something we all feel from time to time.
Too much nostalgia can just straight up make you sing the blues. The human condition is often times not based in logic. Your brain and heart are not wired together. Pretty unfair that happy times create sad feelings but that is what ‘Only Happy When it Rains’ is all about.
Only Happy When it Rains – Dangerous Irony
If you’ve made it this far we want to thank you. You probably have mixed emotions about all this. Which would make things pretty ironic since the entire theme of this piece is mixed emotions. The yes, but no. The too hot to handle, too cold to hold. The happy but sad. Hopefully you get at this point and reading this far was worth it. Just because I obsessively create diver helmet art doesn’t mean I’m a good writer.
Maybe it was best you didn’t read this because perhaps now it changed your opinion on this piece? Perhaps you like an artist’s or band’s work and then you learn about them on a more personal level and it all changes? In the annoying age of non-stop social media this can happen. All I’m trying to say is maybe me writing this stuff isn’t such a good idea because then it exposes and makes myself vulnerable to critique BEYOND just the artwork. But I’ll continue to roll the dice, I suppose, anyway. I’m not super bright – afterall instead of experiencing the fleeting preciousness of life events I choose to obsessively design diver helmet pieces in solitude.
The Holy Triumphrant
Nothing makes sense anymore, anyway. So, if you have a burning desire to adorn your walls with the x3 themes of the aquatic sci-fi, the surreal industrialism, or the oceanic steampunk – look no further. We have you covered. Literally dozens and dozens of you are out there. We will continue our quest to find you, in our quest of the holy triumphrant.
Old But New
We here at the diver helmet obsessed labs of diverhelmet.com like the old but new, the retro-futuristic approach to design aesthetic. Both the ying and the yang. Much like the saudade feelings of experiencing happiness at the same time as polar opposite sadness. Why must we live with such extremes all the time? Man, I have no idea…why do I make diver helmet prints in the first place?
