Diya Studio An Experience…
I named my working space, Diya Studio ( Diya, in Hindi and in Urdu means light and to give), in 2000, the year I graduated from Indus Valley School of Arts and Architecture - www.indusvalley.edu.pk
I always work on my pieces with the light lit behind them. Light is the metaphor for, The God I worship, who has gifted me with a palette of colors through natural pigments, Henna being one of my inks, which has been a natural pigment for centuries. While creating my pieces, I pray and my prayers come out to be a painting of patterns…I never could understand how it all worked and how these patterns come out of me. I feel the power of total submission when I am creating my work, I let go of myself to let the energy guide me. The feeling is AMAZING…I don’t even plan or know what I am doing most times…it’s like a trance the light/ energy takes me into and I become one with it and feel an existence of ‘nothingness’, but a very powerful connection to the non visible world, which btw has always been the real world for me!
The whole experience of being one with the light, makes me want to share this it with all the people around me. I felt the need to write this post, to share the meaning behind the name of my studio. As it’s not an English word, people dont really know or understand what it means here…Diya Studio, a sacred space to me, it’s where I worship the light within each soul that comes to share time with me. I strongly believe light is what we have within us…that light to me is the soul, which is created by God, hence as all art reflects the the artists, the soul within us reflects the creator for me. My life and reason to be alive, is to bring the light of love to all. It’s my calling and I believe its the path my soul is destined to be on.
Photography by Mandi Whitten – www.weensyweb.com
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