I Can Draw The Uploaded Scenery Too But…
Once upon a time, I used to draw.
Many things. Many scenes. All in one page.
For example, as a kindergarten kid, I drew a misshapen house with the position of the door and a window interchanged and by its side, a betel nut tree but with coconut as fruits. The scenery is incomplete without a very shallow river beside that house and a boat moored to its shore. Not to forget the mandatory mountains with the bushes at its foot and the sun peeping out from those mountains to make the scene more colourful. Birds and blobs of clouds filled the skies.
As I was promoted to higher classes, more things found its place in that scene. Because I used to crane my neck and found that the other kid's canvases were colorfully rich. So I imagined every colourful objects possible to fit into that scene. Like lotuses floating in the river, fences and grasses jutting out of nowhere, some colourful stones, swans, autumn trees, fruit trees but never any person or animals. Because the man gets transformed into some shapeless species and the cow turns into some hybrid with the tail of a horse. Art just breathed out its last from my page and left its assortment of colourful carcasses.
I realised I shouldn't draw again for the sake of sanity of my art teachers in school.
Now, if you ask me if I can replicate that beautiful Instagrammable scenery, I would say,
"Of course, why not!"
But the painting will come with a disclaimer:
"All the painting done by me is purely fictional and bears no resemblance, even remotely to the creation of The Creator. Any claims made by me about bearing any semblance is purely intentional. Noob painters will elbow bump me (as is the trend nowadays due to possibility of transmission of pathogens) and seasoned painters will crisscross the "abstract" subconsciously. Any blinding or soreness of eyes caused by the confused mixture of colours reflecting from the painting is your hand's fault. Learn to shield your eyes properly. If curiosity pokes you to turn the page, then continue at your own risk."
©Rumi
