In school upto 4th Grade I used to be very interested in arts and was pretty good at it. Everything changed the moment I got my hands on a basketball, there was just no turning back to anything artistic. 

    For someone who has never had a serious injury after 17 years of sports, In 2019 I had an ACL tear and couldn’t play basketball for a year. It goes without saying the effect it had on my mental health. I needed one way or another to pull myself together and get out of bed each day.

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     I started with sketching faces but that didn’t click as much. I remember buying a water color palette and not being able to paint until after a month because of the fear of not being good enough.

     In December 2019, I painted for the first time since 4th Grade. It was like finding myself in a completely different way. My highlight and motivation to get out of bed everyday was to paint each day. I have been very consistent since then and I have come a long way since.

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    Its been a year since I started painting and I’m hopeful never stopping again. I even have an art page of my own now. I have a handful of extremely supportive friends without whom I could have never post my art online. I will be forever grateful to them.

    Even though I stopped painting on paper for a few years there was no point in life where I wasn’t attached to my colors. My hair styles are probably testimony to that.