Tag: womanhood

Letting The Mind Breathe

I began these mindful drawings in a fragile, unsettled state of mind. My thoughts felt scattered, restless, overlapping, too many at once. So I picked up colours and let them move without planning, without forcing sense or structure. I didn’t try to control the flow; I let the flow carry me. As the colours settled, so did parts of me.

While doing this, a thought stayed with me: Is this even anything? Later, that thought came back through others. Some asked, “What kind of painting is this?” Some said, “It has no meaning.” Some looked longer, trying to extract logic, trying to name it, trying to make sense of it. Others simply found it beautiful.

I noticed how familiar this felt. How people always want to define, label, approve, or dismiss. How art becomes a mirror for their own need to understand or control. And I realised, this is not new. This is human nature.

But this wasn’t made for explanation. It was made for survival. For breathing. For letting my scattered thoughts land somewhere gentle

I don’t need everyone to understand it. I don’t need to defend it. People may say so many different things. They always will. And what we need to do is to continue to do what we do, quietly, honestly, and with care! That’s enough!

And somehow, in the midst of all this, these paintings reside in a foreign land, resting there with a grace that still surprises me!

#roksanatales

Residing Happily, In Tokyo, Japan

The Woman In Your Life

Please appreciate her …..

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Tomorrow you may get a working woman, but you should marry her with these facts as well.

Here is a girl, who is as much educated as you are–

Who is earning almost as much as you do.

One who has dreams and aspirations just as you have because she is as human as you are–

One who has never entered the kitchen in her life just like you or your sister haven’t, as she was busy in studies and competing in a system that gives no special concession to girls for their culinary achievements–

Yes, she can drink and dance just as well as you can, but won’t, simply because you won’t like it, even though you say otherwise—

One who can be late from work once in a while when deadlines, just like yours, are to be met—

One who is doing her level best and wants to make this most important relationship in her entire life a grand success, if you just help her some and trust her—

One who just wants one thing from you, as you are the only one she knows in your entire house – your unstinted support, your sensitivities and most importantly – your understanding, or love, if you may call it—

But not many understand this……

Please appreciate “HER”

Written by Deepa Bhardwaj