05/06/2025
My first metal sculpture !
This is my second year at the National Art School, and until now, I’ve never shared anything I’ve made — not out of shyness, but simply because I didn’t believe the work was good enough. It never felt like me.
Year two hasn’t been any easier than the first. If anything, I demanded more — more from the work, more from myself.
But something shifted.
Through the doubt, the frustration, the emotional turbulence of this metal welding project, I found myself standing at a quiet turning point — not in the work itself, but within.
For the first time, I truly understood what my teachers had been saying all along:
Art isn’t about pleasing others. It’s about being honest with yourself.
I’d heard the words before, but they never landed — not like this.
At 40, I’ve realised I’m still growing.
And this kind of growth feels more real, more grounded, than anything I chased in my 20s.
Art, now, is less about what I make —
and more about what it wakes up in me.
I can finally say:
“I’m studying art. I’m studying myself.”
我是艺术生🙌🏻
