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Solace in Art

Whenever I walk into my room, caught up in the right and wrong, the designs and
it’s not the orderliness that structure or the words and punctuation, that we
makes it feel like home, it’s the forget the most important thing in art, which is
little bit of mess that does the emotions. Art has a way of soothing you. It will
trick. That’s what creativity is make you feel empowered and like you can do
in our life. It’s the little bit mess, anything. It’s not necessary to be Picasso, but you’ll
a contained chaos in our silent always feel happy when you pick up the brush or
Aishwarya Chachad boring lives. I never really your pen and put your thoughts on paper.
understood the happiness and content you could When I started writing, I was new to the world of
feel, just by doing something creative. I truly literature and poetry. I started writing just to clear
believe that man is gifted with intellect, so that he my head, put emotions on paper and therefore I
can create. It’s a matter of pride when you can point never bound myself by any literary rules and I do
at something and say you created it. truly believe in this. Art should not be bound by
I remember as a kid, all I wanted was the big crayon rules, it should flow freely in whichever way the
box and blank pages to draw on. But as I grew up, I artist desires and that’s how great art works are
got caught up in studies, classes and homework so created.
much, that the crayon set stayed in my cupboard I say, give in to your inner child’s silly demands.
waiting to see the light. It was only a few years ago Pick up a brush, a pencil, a pen and draw, write, or
that I discovered a solace in art. WhileI was doing create something new, something unique and
CA, the studies and pressure in general was something that you can call yours.
creating a lot of stress. That’s when I started
writing. Writing became an escape from reality. On
pages I could be anyone, a princess, a warrior, I
could have wings and could fly around the world. I
could create worlds, characters and send them on
adventures. In art anything can be real. It helps to
open up our minds and free them from our daily
routine.

When you create something, be it poems, paintings,
sketches or anything else,have full control over
your creation. Anything can be art, and that’s what
makes it so beautiful. When we grow up, we get so

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