Scientists are beginning to see the benefit of art. Studies show people’s immune system get a boost by simply listening to classical music or seeing a work of art in a museum. Aaron K. Metz is taking this practice and applied it to his own work. The Canadian spent over two decades of his career using the standard acrylic paints for his medium. Nonetheless, by 2013 during a meditation session, Metz said he knew he had to change the ways he was producing art. The painter continues to use acrylics but blends them with crystals in order to emit “healing properties” for his clients. Metz says once he started this process he, “stopped all current paintings I was working on and began this new quest the next day; to never look back.”
