A FRAME OF MIND FOR ART

Seeing my interest in art, especially writing, my father after reading my work, would tell me "Keep on writing". He would then add another embellishing sentence to it "Of course, you need a frame of mind to write". He never elaborated on what he meant and neither did I ask him anytime as to what specifically he was referring to.

It was just about ten years since I had entered my professional space and about seven years since I got married. He had observed as to how the professional space and the family space had had their impacts on me, both on the positive and negative side.

Today, when I sit back and think about those words, I believe what he meant was about how quickly I could recover from the impacts in these two spaces and get into a frame of mind that writing demanded. And I find it a real challenge today as almost everyday, there is something or the other that affects me from one or both these spaces.

Creating a frame of mind means creating a space for ourselves and that can happen only when we switch off from the other spaces.

I thought that sometimes I need to ignore certain things to create this frame of mind. This is probably what some mean when they say "Take things lightly". But then, artists are the most sensitive lot.

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POEMS OF LOST LOVE

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