Who am I, what is my art?

Who am I? What am I doing here? What is the purpose of all of this?

Before you get discouraged and expect an existentialist Freud-style psychoanalysis and click off, I'll start with a selfish confession;

I create because I feel I need to.

There it is, the force driving me to pick up a pencil. Selfish? For so long, that's what I've told myself this is. How dare I zone out, why am I drawing stupid portraits, when I could be studying?

But wait.. why is studying so hard? I should focus more.

But why must I study like this?

Why do I have phrases like "read it until you remember it" "If you've studied more, you would've gotten a better grade" engraved in my head?

Is it really necessary to suffer "studying" just get a letter on my paper??

What if we were never taught like this?

What if we were actually taught how to learn?

What if the problem it's our insufficient effors, but an incorrect methodology?

What if the problem is that were're expected to mindlessly study, instead of actually learning?

And this doesn't just apply to school and education.

From childhood, you hear how you should act, who you should fear, what life you should strive for.

Everything holds only the level of significance that we assign to it.

Just think about it. Even money is paper we print numbers on and give value to it, save it, spend it, worry about it...would lose all meaning if we just decided.

Of course, I'm not some surrealist who praises that all of society sucks, and let's all just ignore the stupid traffic signs, and drive as we want to.

What I'm calling your attention to is that even the parts of life that what we take as absolute truths to live by,(time-management,political systems, economical systems, social hierarchy etc.) were just created once as well.

So why would it sound so crazy to believe in your ideas as well?

As long as it doesn't hurt you or anyone else, choosing what to give power and attention to is a right that we all have.

The less we judge ourselves, the less we judge others and vice versa.

Just because something you

can't see a lot of examples of your story, doesn't mean it's incorrect - it's just as important as the ones that are loud.

1. Ts.Arttales tells the stories that are unheard.

   • TsArttales' mission is make no one feel left out, and to show different journeys, and ask questions we don't ask.​​

2. Because art can tell much more than words.

   • Because some of my favourite memories were when I people were touched by the personal painting that I made for them

3. It retells stories we know from a different perspective.

   • So much of what we believe about the world​ was told to us through bedtime stories about right and wrong. - which can be a double-edged sword.

   • The goal is not to crush tradition, more to honor it and ask new questions

4. Using art as a tool for education — making complex ideas accessible, emotional, visual.​

   • I have grown to unlearn the narrative that studying should be dreadful and that not "being good" at a subject is the lack of intelligence or hard-work. We might just need different tools.​​​

5. It gives a look into the journey I'm on and how I'm transforming the ordinary to ​special.

   • Finding my way back to childlike marvel at the world.

6. It gives a look into how I'm transforming the each day and small experiences as part of the journey.

Being an artist means being on a constant adventure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrhx-7OzoD8

This is a video I've made about how you can adapt this mindset to everyday creation.

Thanks for coming to my long Ars poetica.

Hope that you'll join me on the journey to becoming more at peace with ourselves.

If you have a story to share, reach out to me.