Dharshana Bajaj

 What is the truth about life? Why are we here? Who are we really? Divine spirits in human bodies? Did we come here to do the things we do? Or have we all missed out on the real reasons for being? The pettiness, the back-stabbing, the envy and the hate. Where did all this come from? And why? Where did pain and poverty come from? Did we create it? And the abuse? The massacre's? And yet we are supposed to be divine?  It all comes down to the choices we make. Like choosing to remind ourselves we are divine. Yes, one needs to keep repeating to oneself. This crazy world we live in does not reflect who we really are. We are not petty mortals with decaying flesh, only. We are much, much more.  I Am That (Charlie), Oil Painting on Canvas, 36" x 48", 2021

Picasso’s biographer, author and critic Pierre Daix observed, ‘Painters are never better than in the evening of their lives.’ May be so. But when you are young and yet to be recognized in the world for your art, when you are still light years away from finding a place for yourself as an artist in this world, you are sure to have a few companions hovering around you at all times, not the least eager of them being your doubts. Doubts in the worthiness of what one produces can hound a creative person to the edge of insanity, especially when one seems to be the only one who considers one’s efforts of any value. History is filled with names of such artists.   Every artist has asked this of himself at one point or the other: “Am I good enough?” Even those with every right to be conceited and confident have been humbled by this insidious traitor, Doubt. Nowadays artists seek validation on social media platforms. But until the art work is actually considered worthy enough to be bought by someo