I’ve always been a believer of looking at things differently but I truly came into actualization when I began sketching abstracts from the year 2018.
Har aadmi mein hote hai dus bees aadmi
jis ko bhi dekhna ho kai baar dekhna
Poet Nida Fazli’s couplet sits perfectly with the fact that how each and every human around us is unbelievably eccentric in their own way and has so many layers to his/her character. Bringing out those edges, those layers and rough corners – with the help of my sketches – brought me immense joy and unsaid adrenaline rush.
The thought of doing something the way it is “suppose” to be never intrigued me. Nothing around us is exactly the way they are presented on the outside. And this epiphany about the complexities and perplexing angles of human nature brought me my sense of peace.
December 2017 was one of the hardest times in my life. I was broken and at my lowest – personally, professionally – nothing seemed to work. But rest assured, the broken pieces of me are motivated to keep going on and have enough fuel to survive ever since bringing out my emotions on a piece of paper became my respite.
It turned out to be a major accomplishment of these past two years of my life – and I am surviving through strengths and strangles of this thing called life.
P.S. I never knew the concept of a hobby being taught in moral science lessons in school would truly bring out the artist in me!!!????
The author is a social worker and an abstract explorer.
