Manifest Goodness In Your Life | Suvigya Sharma | TEDxYouth@NMS
## Speaker Context - Speaker identity: Artist (also described as "accidental artist"). - Audience, setting, occasion of the talk: Not explicitly stated, but context suggests a talk/presentation setting. - Any framing the speaker establishes for themselves up front: "foreign as an artist what I've learned is that imagination is something whatever you visualize and you implement it it in your real life and putting it into a product or a structure or an idea into creativity." ## People - Father + relationship/detail: Artist. - Grandfather + relationship/detail: Artist. - Friend + relationship/detail: Told the speaker to paint a portrait of a gentleman who recently lost his wife. - Client (the gentleman in the portrait): Lost his wife recently (two months prior to the painting). - The lady (in the portrait): Whose portrait was painted. - His son (of the lady): Asked the price of the portrait. - Prominent family (in Bombay): Commissioned the painting that led to the copyright discussion. - Interior designer: Assisted the family in Bombay and created a high-resolution print of the speaker's work. - The PM sir (Prime Minister): Wanted to meet the speaker as an artist, leading to a portrait being done for him. - Client (for the 2017 meeting): Commissioned the portrait. - Mentor (who assisted the speaker in Bombay): Guided the speaker through ups and downs and became like a friend. ## Organizations - Pune Symbiosis + what they do + relevance to the speaker: Where the speaker did his foreign trade export management. - London British Parliament + what they do + relevance to the speaker: Invited the speaker in 2008. ## Places - Rajasthan + relevance + qualifying detail: Origin of the speaker, noted for being rich in culture and art. - India + relevance + qualifying detail: Origin of the speaker, noted for being rich in culture and art. - Pune + relevance + qualifying detail: Location where the speaker went to college. - Bombay (Mumbai) + relevance + qualifying detail: Where the speaker went to explore ideas after stock market losses, and where he painted the portrait for a prominent family. - London + relevance + qualifying detail: Where the British Parliament invited him. ## Tools, Tech & Products - Pencil + function + named relationships: Used by the speaker for sketching since childhood. - Charcoal + function + named relationships: Used by the speaker for sketching since childhood. - Pigments + function + named relationships: Made by blending colors from vegetables (like palak or spinach and lime). - Painting + function + named relationships: Medium used for artwork (portraits, miniature painting). - Copywriting + function + named relationships: Process of protecting artwork originality and effort (used in the context of copyright). - NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) + function + named relationships: Digital art form recognized for global exposure; used by speaker for his collection. ## Concepts & Definitions - Imagination + usage + detail: Something whatever you visualize and you implement it in your real life and putting it into a product or a structure or an idea into creativity. - Accidental Artist + usage + detail: How the speaker describes himself initially. - Folk art + usage + detail: Art forms prevalent in the speaker's home country. - Miniature painting artist + usage + detail: Skill mastered by the speaker involving hyper detail. - Refined Tanjore + usage + detail: Term the speaker coined for modernizing Tanjore artwork, emphasizing detail and intricacy. - Copyrighting + usage + detail: Process to protect the effort put into making an artwork real and authentic as a product. - Perish and Precious + usage + detail: Name given to the speaker's collection, symbolizing species on the verge of extinction. ## Numbers & Data - Seven years old: Age when the speaker began learning art. - 2001: Year when the speaker realized he needed to do something of his own, and when he opened his company. - 17 years old: Age of the speaker in 2001. - 2008: Year when the speaker began the journey of handicrafts/art seriously. - One in a year: Frequency of container failure that sometimes caused setbacks. - 2008 January 22nd: Date of the major stock market crash. - 25 years old: Age of the speaker when the stock market crash occurred. - Two months back: Time frame since the lady in the portrait passed away. - A month: Time taken to paint the first portrait. - A lakh: Amount mentioned by the son when complimenting the portrait. - 2012-13: Approximate timeframe when the speaker noticed the importance of copyright. - Five feet away: Distance from which the forgery of the artwork could not be detected. - Three to four years: Timeframe over which Tanjore paintings were recognized after refinement. - 2013: Year of the speaker's first solo show. - 15 minutes: Duration of the interaction with the PM. - 2008: Year the British Parliament invited him. - Seven: Age of the speaker's son during the pandemic. - Eight hours a day: Amount of time the speaker used to paint daily. - One hour day: The reduced time the speaker's painting hours tended to turn into during the pandemic. ## Claims & Theses - Imagination is something whatever you visualize and you implement it it in your real life and putting it into a product or a structure or an idea into creativity. - I never want to become an artist [because of father's traveling]. - I decided to become an exporter in 2001. - I was somebody who's an extreme optimist. - I am not somebody who sells sinners at the situation and would cry about it or pester about it. - I came out [of the experience] such a happy feeling that you do something and it was appreciated so well it felt so well by the family. - I believe that the time I came in the industry was not bad luck. - There's a lot of glitch in the anatomy which can be rectified the gold which can be you know the embossing can be better the facial features the anatomy is the most important any artwork as I like as we are you know we do more figuratives and it's miniature. - Copywriting is very important because what actually happens is that... [it prevents the loss of effort]. - Those with art as well, [make sure you use] copyright. - The challenge was transforming from extreme Indian folk art to make it a little modernistic to fit in the modern day houses. - Every career has different different kind of challenges. - I realized that life is very unpredictive. - What really matters is that life would always have its own plans for your future. - What really matters is that your mental piece is very very important at the first go keep your mental peace and like I said become an optimist prophesize positivity in your life. - Retrospecting myself every week that what is the good I have done what is what is the bad I have done in a meeting or in my life or in my family or as a parent or as a child has helped me a lot. ## Mechanisms & Processes - Creating art: Visualizing, implementing into a product, structure, or idea. - Art/Crafts process: Initially done by blending own colors from vegetables (e.g., spinach and lime) with the father. - Portrait Commission: A friend suggested painting a portrait of a gentleman who lost his wife two months prior; speaker took a month to paint it. - Modernization/Refinement: The process of improving traditional art forms (like Tanjore) by fixing anatomical glitches, enhancing gold, and improving facial features. - Copyrighting: The process that, if absent, would wipe off all the effort made into an original artwork, leaving no value. - NFT Creation: Creating digital art pieces as compositions based on the realization that digital art also has value and worldwide exposure, especially during lockdown. - Self-Introspection: The process of retrospecting weekly on one's own actions—what was good and what was bad—in meetings, life, family, etc. ## Timeline & Events - Before 2001: Learning art with father and grandfather. - 2001: Speaker was 17; opened his company; studied foreign trade export management in Pune; began handicraft firm. - Period before 2008: Business involved traveling and exporting, with periodic failures (e.g., container failure). - 2008 January 22nd: Major stock market crash occurred. - Post-2008 (In Bombay): Speaker started exploring ideas, focusing on art again after financial losses. - Shortly after Bombay success: Received the first best appreciation of his life from painting a portrait. - Period of early career (Post-initial success): Worked on refining Tanjore paintings. - Around 2012-13: Experienced a forgery of his work leading to the focus on copyright. - Pre-2013 (Following the Bombay incident): The speaker's artwork was seen at a client's place, leading to discussion on copyright. - Around 2013: First solo show happened. - 2017: Received a call from the PM, leading to a portrait done for him. - Later: Invited by the London British Parliament (Year not specified relative to 2017). - During the pandemic: Spent time with family and dedicated time to personal art practice. - In the first lockdown: Read about NFTs, leading to the start of his NFT collection. ## Examples & Cases - The speaker's own childhood sketching: Used to paint pencil/charcoal sketches for teachers in the class period. - Pigment making: Blending own colors from vegetables like palak (spinach) and lime. - First Commission: Painting a portrait delivered a month after the subject passed away; the subjects were teary-eyed upon seeing it. - Second Commission: Painting done for a family in Bombay, leading to the understanding of the need for copyright. - Forgery Case: Seeing an exact copy of his work at a client's entrance done by someone other than himself, which was a high-resolution print of his work. - "Mahalakshmi Saroop": An example of a Tanjore style piece mentioned when discussing refinement. - Modern Day Paintings: Examples of art that represented the challenge of keeping traditional art forms relevant as the world modernizes. - First Award: The first 3D City Vinayak Painting, carved in wood, gold, and silver, with semi-precious/precious stone embellishments. - NFT Collection: The collection, "Perish and Precious," featuring endangered species like the lion, polar bear, penguin, giraffe, or kangaroo. ## Trade-offs & Alternatives - Profession choice: Being an artist vs. becoming an exporter (initial decision). - Art Style Adaptation: Sticking to traditional Tanjore/Indian folk art vs. modernizing it to fit modern houses/trends. - Initial Focus: Exporting crafts/handicrafts vs. focusing on art (painting). - NFT creation: Creating NFTs vs. keeping art purely physical. ## Counterarguments & Caveats - Initially, the speaker did not want to be an artist because he saw his father traveling constantly. - The speaker notes that export business had periods of profitability but also extreme lows (e.g., container failures). - The initial period of modern art exposure (2008 onwards) presented a challenge because European culture trends were changing, moving away from traditional styles. - The initial success in painting was not immediately repeatable, as highlighted by the forgery incident. - The speaker notes that many people are in the NFT market but that "a lot of Forge also which happens especially with nfts." ## Methodology - Art Creation: Utilizing imagination, implementing visualizations into physical products/ideas. - Art Commissioning: Receiving paid work based on established skill (e.g., portrait painting). - Artistic Innovation: Systematically studying and rectifying anatomical and decorative elements of traditional art (e.g., Tanjore) to make it contemporary. - Market Protection: Utilizing copyright to legally affirm ownership and value of creative effort. - Self-Reflection: Practicing weekly introspection on personal and professional actions. ## References Cited - None explicitly named as scholarly or external sources, only art forms and historical events/people referenced within the narrative. ## Conclusions & Recommendations - For general life advice: "What you prophesize what you testify on your life it all comes true," and "try being optimistic about things in life and just speak optimism all your life." - For career/creation advice: Anyone with a creative idea that is original or implemented with new effort should "make sure you copyright it." - For resilience advice: "Always... take one thing at a go and don't stress about things." - For personal growth advice: "Retrospecting myself... has helped me a lot to... make me as a better person as a better human." ## Implications & Consequences - If imagination is not implemented: It remains only a visualization, lacking physical form or product. - If a piece of art is not copyrighted: The entire effort invested in creating it can be wiped off, resulting in no value. - If one speaks negativity: It implies that negative things will come to life. - If one fails to maintain mental peace: It could negatively impact one's ability to thrive. ## Open Questions - Whether a celebrity like Sachin would ever come to inaugurate the speaker's solo show (question asked internally/discussed). ## Verbatim Moments - "imagination is something whatever you visualize and you implement it it in your real life and putting it into a product or a structure or an idea into creativity" - "I call myself an accidental artist" - "Destiny has its own plans" - "I am somebody who's an extreme optimist" - "the three were sitting I delivered to Portrait to them I hope you like it and all the three were teary eyed so they had tears in their eyes" - "No more of those jaro cars and no more of those traditional houses" - "the anatomy is the most important any artwork as I like as we are you know we do more figuratives and it's miniature" - "it'll take off it will wipe off all the effort what you've made all these years into a into a dumb based there'll be no no value out of it" - "I don't know healthy talk I asked that will I ever do a show of my own my solo show as an artist where I'll be showcasing all my works" - "I prophesize what you testify on your life it all comes true" - "Perish and Precious" - "what really matters is that your mental piece is very very important at the first go keep your mental peace"