Brushing Through My Palette Of Imagination In The Silent Language Of Art

Art is the proof of living,that you have lived once and you have felt once. A mirror reflecting the diversity of human experiences is a good definition of art.It mostly serves as a demonstration to the richness of the wide human imagination and the limitless possibilities of creative expression.

My journey with art began from a very early age when my parents saw me drawing spiders and flowers and admitted me to a neighbourhood art school. And this school did not just introduce me with the freedom of my imagination but also became my second home that teaches me how to find comfort in the stroke of a paint brush and how limitless human experience could be! The most unique thing about art is that there's no rules or structural clock. As a child I drew everything wrong until I discovered there's no right or wrong in art. I had no idea that the wrong paint could be so rightfully beautiful and that just made me feel the most humane I've ever felt in my entire life. All forms of art have one thing in common: it glorifies the beauty of vulnerability and to live is to be vulnerable.This is how intertwined living and creating art is as a human.

After plenty of awards and assurance from people around me I tried canvas painting around the year 2020 and started an art account on Instagram not solely for business,but to have a sense of establishment as an artist and a motivation to be consistent with art. This journey has taught me more than multiple shades of any colour and how you can simultaneously think and visualise your thoughts into a form of painting. I occasionally sell my paintings and had to pass the phase where I needed to understand that the worth of my art will not depend on clout or how much reach i get because the algorithm of a platform like Instagram isn't very supportive for artists, especially for the painters/poets. However the satisfaction after editing a poetry draft or after varnishing a canvas that includes a story anyone can perceive differently with the freedom of taking it personally, making a personal story about it, feeling a personal ache regarding the painting is what's so special about being an artist. It's almost like every art of an artist and writing of an author is a constant eulogy for them feeling their feelings and living their life. 

In between a lot of breaks I'm still trying to be more active in my art account and started a facebook art page as well recently, with more commitment towards drawing thoughts,writing grief and painting fragments of life itself. With the quote of Thomas Marton as he said "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." I hope next time on a random Tuesday while passing an art gallery we'll find ourselves wondering about life and lose ourselves thinking about that particular painting that stinks so deep.

And reassure our exhausted hearts that it's okay to feel what we're feeling because the same feelings have been felt before, similar moments have been lived before. We were never alone when there existed many visual diaries with fragments of life as canvases or framed pictures on wall to wall. 

[ note : all photos have been taken by me and from my own account @caterpillaart on Instagram and Facebook ]