Art Career: A Metaphorical Elucidation

By: Saileena

Art is never and easy forte, especially when it comes to pursuing it is a career. Of course no path is easy. But when we talk about mainstream career options of engineering, medical, teaching, journalism etc., we have a fixed endpoint. We know once we have made it to the end of an engineering, medical mass-communication degree, wading all through the rough waters, we have the other bank to get onto. The walk is not a cake walk for sure, but it's not a no man's land either.

With some uncertainties and loads of struggle, there is some stability when you are a mainstream warrior. An artist, on the other hand, has no definite bank and is quite in the midst of the sea all the time. But as an artist, quite serious and passionate about it, I have never felt struggling to wade, battling to swim across, with all the fear of drowning ( haha, that's for people who do no how to swim) or getting eaten up by deadly creatures. I have always remained afloat on my ship. I face thunderstorms and cyclones on this path, but I have a ground of my ship. You get this metaphorical description if you are a truly devoted artist.

Finally, in my four years of horrendously enduring engineering experience and experiences that go past my engineering days, art has always pepped me up, kept me grounded and centred. The blows of life pretty much didn't uproot me, rather, they couldn't. Still, art is a side career for me. Stability outside and stability inside, both are needed. A mainstream career is for outer stability. Art is for the inner business.

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