Finding Gurnain Kaur.

Illustration to me was always about sketching. However, I realized I could present thoughts in a different manner through styling. It is fun, it is refreshing and it's a different kind of perspective. Spaces and frames have always been my inspiration. The best part about art is that your work can at times be so personal, it can be all about you. And sometimes it's all about finding yourself.

And I just know.

It was two years back when it took me a lot of courage to ask one of my teachers "how do you know whether you want to work for a designer or for a company?" I was always this shy kid you see. The kind who would NEVER go and ask a teacher if something bothered me, twisted as that sounds, its true. But the thing is, I finally did and the reply she gave me, with a very knowing look on her face, has remained with me ever since: "By the end of the 4th year, you will know. It just happens."

Trust me, I wasn't very happy with her answer. But somehow, i chose to trust her in a weird sort of a way. And today, two years down the line...I know how damn well right she was. You just know. It is liberating and empowering at the same time.

I remember, I had this compulsive obsession with barbies. I had tons of them, believe me. I had their entire families..., ken dolls, kelly, skipper....barbie magazines....barbie stories...entire wardrobes. Anything, you can think of: From their bathrooms to their kitchens to even their Gardens! In short, I had more barbies, than friends.

I would sit in my room and play the entire day. Alone. Creepy as it may sound, but that obsession is what I understand now. Dressing up those dolls has subconsciously stayed in me all these years. I walk down the corridors of my college and look at people as they pass...and i see flashes of them in a an entirely different look. In an entirely different perspective. A complete makeover, a dramatic transformation. Its as if God is talking. I see what they can be. These common earthlings...transformed into a styled version of their own potentials. They are beautiful in my eyes...each and every one of them. They are my canvases...real and energetic, pulsing  with life. What could be more attractive than that? What more could i want my artwork to be?

Real people: Styled...worked on... conceptualized...dressed up...polished and smoothed out.

And just like that I know, I could do this forever. Styling. Turning people into something more.

My people. My vision. My canvases.