A Collage Art Journal Web-Exhibition,
Butterflying The Highway
by Rupa Subramaniam

எப்படி அக்கா? நீங்க அசிங்கமான விஷயத்த கூட அழகா இருக்குன்னு சொல்றீங்க?

When my 15-year-old art student asked me, “how do you see beauty in ugliness?”, I felt like I had I received the finest compliment of being an artist. All the awards I’ve won, doesn’t compare.

Now, I’m haunted by the inability to see beauty in the most mesmerizing of sights.

The world’s vibrant colours, once a source of inspiration, now feels like disconnected reality. Beautiful, but an empty spectacle. Once, I could find beauty in the mundane, the ugly. Now, even the most breathtaking scenes leave me unimpressed.

I’m afraid of asking myself,
what happens to an artist who loses the ability to see beauty?