Manifest Goodness In Your Life | Suvigya Sharma | TEDxYouth@NMS
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaXSQpp1URQ Video ID: aaXSQpp1URQ ============================================================ 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 so when I talk about me as a Layman as an artist so um so initial layers when I talk about that for me I call myself an accidental artist and why do I say that because when I came in the industry we are three generations into art my father is also an artist so is my grandfather but what I faced at a later stage and since I was seven years old all I Learned was Art and that two four cards and uh the generation which is my age we grew with a surrounding of you know seeing a lot of these traditional art forms everywhere and that's what we grew up with the heritages our city our state Rajasthan our India we are very rich in culture art and culture and in 2001 when I kind of realized that you know I have to you know do something of my own I was 17 years old so I never want to become an artist because I've seen my father striving uh been traveling all our lives and he was you know most of the times he was traveling for work for art uh for painting so I decided to become an exporter so in 2001 when I opened my company uh I I went to a college in Pune symbiasis did my foreign trade export management and uh from there when I came back I started my own company started exporting thinking that you know it was a very fascinating career I thought it's a career that you know it will be you will be traveling places all around the world and uh we'll be giving you that exposure and as I knew art and crafts so I started my own handicraft firm and just began the journey so since 2008 I was doing it was trial and error sometimes you know it used to be profitable and once in a year there were this time that you know one of your containers failed and you know everything came back to you know Ground Zero so like I say Destiny has its own plans and uh till 2000 I was simultaneously into the stock market also so I used to uh trade a lot of stocks and then in 2008 January 22nd this major stock market crash came and it was all of a sudden it was steep Decline and I was the one like any other you know person in the country born major losses and I was 25 years old married and I was like left with no grounds what to do then I kind of realized one thing I've done with myself is that I am somebody who's an extreme optimist why do I say that that I am not somebody who sells Sinners at the situation and you know would cry about it or pester about it I'm somebody who just you know I take my time absorbing the situation and I say what next then in all the midst of all the disappointment around me and my surroundings I was to you know um down for that moment but I went to Bombay and I was like what to do next like you know export isn't doing great for me so I went to Bombay started exploring ideas and my base my Crux was Art that's what I have been doing all my life since I was seven years old I was very famous in the school of my pencil sketching my you know the pencil sketches of my teachers in the play period I used to sit in the class and I used to paint pencil charcoal sketches for my teachers and we used to do we to make our pigments by itself I used to set my father and we used to blend our own colors from vegetables maybe palak or like spinach and lime so that's what was my was my core role that's what I was pissed at went to Bombay accidentally um I A friend of mine told me that as you're not doing any anything much right now why don't you pay the portrait of this gentleman as he just lost his wife uh recently just two months back and I was like okay I definitely will try to but I'm not in the practice of doing it well but I think from since school you were the best at this so just give it a try so then I this was the lady and this was the portrait done I took kind of a month to paint it and this lady demise two months back I painted this portrait delivered to him a month later took a month to paint this portrait and the first best appreciation all my life that day so it was him it was the sun and it was his wife 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 and you like it it is as if this she's sitting live in front of us so that was the feeling Monica thank you so much sir then the second thing is that uh how much her son asks how much would you charge for this so I told him an X prize she was like that's it okay yes sir is that much like if you even have would ask the lack for it we would have paid you a lakh for the kind of the Soul what you have put in the in the painting and that is the beginning of my career that and I went on from that place I came out I'm such a happy feeling that you do something and it was appreciated so well it felt so well by the family and I was like okay I'm still good at it I can I can still manage painting on my own and earn a living then it was like uh there was one more challenge I strongly faced and as we are talking about Innovation Beyond imagination I believe that the time I came in the industry was not bad luck why I say this is that my father we grew up with a lot of folk art around because their country is very very rich or not and I started my career as an artist in 2001 2008 when I actually decided to paint and earn my living everything was European culture and you know the trends are changing no more of those jaro cars and no more of those traditional houses so that was like the survival what I felt what do I do now so at that time I tried innovating so when you see this these are original tanjos and the one you see next so there's a later term I called it they're called refined than yours why I call them refined is in terms of detail intricacy and I'm a miniature painting artist so I master hyper detail so according to me I felt 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 then I worked on these things a lot so tanjos became refined on yours and later in a span of three four years they got recognized like that this was my first copyright and why I did this because I had some glitches that I paint painted this painting for a family in Bombay a very prominent family and while I did this painting for her for the family so there was this intern uh following you know who was assisting the the interior designer so after a year or so in around 2012-13 when I was kind of already you know established as an artist doing decent work um so I come I go to a client's place and I see that this is copywriting is something which is very important so in this copywriting will matter because uh what actually happens is that uh and what sorry yeah let me continue the same thing that what happened that when Anthony went to this lion's place so at the entrance I see exactly the same work on the main entrance and it was not done by me so I was waiting for the client she came so the first thing I asked there is ma'am this painting uh who did it was just my interior designer so it was a very high resolution print of my same work but from five feet away you cannot make out that this is actually the original work or not and the dumb fellow also forgot to remove my signature from it yeah so I told her mom this is one of my works and um she told her oh I never knew that so then I was like you put in so much of an effort of creating an artwork to make it real to make it look authentic as a product you have worked so hard to make it like a product of its own which is an original that you look forward to a future with it so those with art as well so then I call this guy explained to him otherwise with a copyright if you don't have a copyright for at least some something which is the original 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 so always anyone into creative careers just make sure that if you think it's an original idea it's a it's a real concept that you actually I know you have implemented it myself you've put new efforts into making it so make sure you copyright it that's something which is very integral so then this is a mahalakshmi saroop then again a tanjore to be so this was the challenge what I'm talking about from transforming to extreme Indian folk art to make it a little modernistic to fit in the modern day houses was my challenge like I say every career has different different kind of challenges this was my basic what you call the difficulty to kind of how do I survive in this modern era of Art then this is one picture so the pitchwise became modern day which wise though they're the oldest traditional art forms but like I said when the world changes when it modernizes so people get over new ideas and concepts for them it is very old school so that's what it was called then so these are modern day pituities and of these phone calls I got an appointment from him met him for the first time and uh after that I did a small work for him and in the course they were also doing their own residence so then these five years passed by of his house got done and I did some artworks for him and he's also become a mentor to me and he's been guiding me through a lot of my ups and downs became more like a friend so I we discussed I don't know healthy talk I asked that uh will I ever do a show of my own my solo show as an artist where I'll be showcasing all my works and a celebrity would come you know maybe Sachin I was working with audacity to ask him because you know it was like thinking that he'll just say no so will that day ever come in life that will he come and inaugurate my show for that sake then it was like 2013 my first show happened there was no celebrity there was no PR nothing didn't know anything about how to go about it but like I say what you prophesize what you testify on your life it all comes true so this is a lesson for everyone try being optimistic about things in life and just speak optimism all your life that's what really really matters to everyone so that is one reason I say I'm an extreme Optimist for that reason so I don't testify any any negativity on my life or on my surroundings so that is one thing you all should follow it'll rather make your life better then this was like I say innovation so I had to improvise myself of doing a genre of art which is um you know which is appreciated and I be accepted in the World Market as an artist that point of time since 2008 I tried innovating a lot of lot of ideas and concepts of my own like I said a picture I became a you know a modern day picture became a refined tanjore so I all the refinement I did was just on the art front that's it so this was one of my first awards it was the first 3D City vinayak Painting so a 4D City vinayak Painting and it was carved in wood and gold and silver and some semi-precious and precious stone embellishments and it got recognized it gave me also a lot of recognition as an artist so and obviously a great feeling when you get your first award uh in 2017 I get this call from the pmo that the PM sir wants to meet you as in as an artist so this portrait was done for him at that point of time and uh unexpectedly I was called to the pmo next week and the meeting got lined up and I was invited by the pmo we had a 15-minute long interaction then 2008 was invited by London British Parliament and these are all I'm why I'm sharing these things with you all is that life is very unpredictive all you have to do is just you know focus on what you're doing and I realized late in my life as I say I'm an accidental artist but in 2008 I kind of realized that it was this time in a manner that this will happen and it just happened then the British Parliament I got a Bharat gaurav award and so on the life has just been a journey and then the pandemic came so in the pandemic it was a very heavy time for everyone initial days were a couple of days for good rest and later everyone was like what to do summer started cooking someone you know inside their pursuing their own Passions one thing two things I did one is that uh you I used to be a Avid traveler at work I used to travel a lot and so I got a lot of time to spend with my family my son turned seven I just didn't realize that he's seven and I was not there with him in all the course because I was busy working and as an artist also I had a complaint that I didn't get the time to paint and there was this time I used to paint eight hours a day and later it just tend to turn to just an hour day maybe or not even that so at that point of time I definitely spent a lot of good time with my family and the second time at the second phase I would say that I gave a lot of time practicing my own art again instead of doing it for people I started doing it for myself again it it felt like childhood again that you know since I was a child I was you know I used to do out of passion one thing which strongly happened gave me a lot of happiness and a lot of you know unintended peace like you know I never thought that I'll get that kind of time quality time with family and of my own at artworks so this is something which I wanted to implement as a collection a lot of years so all the photographs you see are clicked by me of my travel across the globe and I have a very strong love for animals for that sake this collection called perish and precious it's called perishes perish and precious so then I gave this particular collection a meaning and as you must have heard about nfts all of you must have heard about what nfts are non-fungible tokens so I was reading about it just came across this in the first lockdown and I was like uh Digital Arts also do have a value and plus more than a value they had a very big exposure worldwide so I actually started making them you know as art pieces to begin with you know putting them as compositions like any other artist does and uh while the lockdown finished I was ready with the collection of my own and now it's become a rage and it's a Global Travel collection and it has a lot of meaning to it because all these species what you see or on the verge of Extinction may it be a lion or a polar bear or a penguin or a giraffe or a kangaroo for that sake or so this is something was something close to my heart implemented that started my own nft collection launched it and the one of the lucky few actually who survived in the nft market because there's a lot of Forge also which happens especially with nfts so yeah this is how it has been and copywriting I told you about and all of you youngsters out here 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 you know positivity in your life don't speak negative about your life because whatever we speak comes to life at the same time what really matters is that life would always have its own plans for your future so just take one thing at a go and don't stress about things and the most important what I realize in the look down again is that I started you know retrospecting myself my own self every 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 so that has helped me a lot self-interest introspection what you call it so that has helped me a lot to you know make me as a better person as a better human and being being light over here in the mind so this comes for everyone so just do that and do great in your respective careers God bless you all thank you [Applause]