Abstract paintings seem to be a big deal all the time, but what everybody hides from us is that paintings are the simplest and toughest things in the world. Give some paint or simply a pen to a toddler and she will create a masterpiece on whatever canvas you provide, and often that canvas is a wall! As a child, human being is very receptive and free from What-will-people-say thoughts and that is the reason they are so carefree, try reading their wall paintings and scribbles on newspaper it has a lot to say. Now, I am going to repeat a well-known cliché which is "nature is the biggest art and artist", yes it is but how much do we understand it?
The picture you see here was created by my eight years old cousin under my guidance. We were having nothing to do in the lockdown afternoon and were watching our plants in our balcony garden, sunlight was poor which made many leaves fall. I picked up some leaves of Rangoon creeper and as a habit put them in one of my books. Later that noon I was watching a You-tube video of thread painting and then it struck me that we can do that with leaves as we did back in school. Then my little cousin and I pulled out a sheet of paper and some paint, he was more excited than I was and we started printing with dying leaves. As I was guiding him and pushing him for the full prints of the leaf on paper what he said amused me " Didi it's okay half half is also so beautiful", then I let him do that. Now think, if an eight year old could understand how beautiful broken things can look then why not us. He went on to pick brightest colors in the box and I was surprised to see this vibrant piece of art, had it been just me doing this there would have been only shades of green and brown I guess.
We are afraid to pick up unusual things, we fear taking a different route to the same place, we fear to experiment and we bound ourselves. Our fear stops us from doing the smallest thing to the dreams we want to achieve. We are humans and it is all natural, we are being humane when we fear or hesitate but what we must do every day is keep up spirit and push ourselves to be little more and live little more. Small acts of courage can lead to big dreams and dreams are powerhouse!
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wonderful pay with leaves... and great writup....
ReplyDeleteI love u way though and so much creative like this...❤
Thank you so much :)
DeleteAs an output, I have a dissimilar perspective. First thing the way you express this story telling is interesting. Second thing is, as a child we do not carry much responsibilities so we do not aware of consequences before taking any step. So as we grow up, we sensitize of outcome before moving forward which comes with an experience so we think twice before doing anything because we start thinking about pros and cons and everything, we do because we carry responsibilities. That is why we afraid, I guess. Still there is two sides of this story and on a positive side, I loved that line said, "didi, half half is also beatifube" I am honestly so touched with it and indeed this is true. You both did great work together, artist. Keep doing you are inspiring.
ReplyDeleteYes I absolutely agree that as we grow up our experiences shape us but the we also start running from the most basic things and we start making boundaries for ourselves. Thank you for your valuable comment. :)
DeleteYour thoughts about these things are awesome.
ReplyDeleteThank you🤗
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