Painting With Light i used to be inspired by stories till I realized a storyteller made them so. Then I began to be inspired by storytellers.

Travel Photography Scholarship 2012entry

I studied filmmaking for 2 years after a base in art and design. There are 2 main cinematic concerns that I keep exploring in order to find one’s own poetics of the image: the point of view (as a narrative tool, and a formalistic one), and the constant internal rearrangement of the frame. My way of looking at the world through multiple lenses is by interacting through a camera lens. I have dabbled with many mediums. Water, oils, acrylics...But my favorite kind of painting, is that with light.
And in the words of my favorite 11-year-old storyteller, "Art is full of imaginary lines... Like the Equator." So traversing across time, space and thought, I want to collect stories painted with light.
And it is People, who take you to new places of thought.
I used to be inspired by stories, till I learnt that a storyteller made them so. Then I began to be inspired by storytellers.
If selected, this mentorship would help me learn, un-learn and re-learn the ethics and process of authoring images, while in the midst of a new culture. I would not only hear new stories, but also be a part of them.
And Stories reveal ourselves to us.
So one can choose to be conscious, and live deliberately.