While taking an introduction to photography class in my foundation year at a prestigious art school, I had the pleasure of experimenting with pinhole photography. Thou it is a very primitive camera, I found that it give a dimension that a regular camera cannot.
This photograph represents the many things I love in the creative arts. Theatre, music, art, and the celebration of these things in my life. I've enjoyed engaging in, using whatever art form presents itself.
However, the thing that dogged me throughout my first year was choosing a major. I would choke, thinking about being confined and limited to one thing. The attitude of the day was that if a person didn't pick a major, such as painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, etching, etc., that they were unfocused, or worse, a dilettante. That was a hard pill to swallow, but I finally accepted that I did not fit into any one thing.
I love learning, exploring and fusing forms and ideas, just to see where they go. Bollywood Storm, is a two book novel, that does just that. It has many elements that bend the rules, as far as genre writing goes. It's a multi-cultural dark comedy that combines the Bollywood movie genre and American detective style story telling, and it's a mystical journey. It has all the elements of a Bollywood movie with drama, comedy, dance, romance and five song and dance numbers too!
As an person who loves the arts, I see few validates for boundaries, and quietly, or not so quietly, slip past imposed limitations and rules - not because I purposely challenge the attitudes that fashion the day, but because, most of the time, I don't see how it applies to the business of art making. Besides, I'm just too busy having the time of my life.
Cheers!
N K Johel
This photograph represents the many things I love in the creative arts. Theatre, music, art, and the celebration of these things in my life. I've enjoyed engaging in, using whatever art form presents itself.
However, the thing that dogged me throughout my first year was choosing a major. I would choke, thinking about being confined and limited to one thing. The attitude of the day was that if a person didn't pick a major, such as painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, etching, etc., that they were unfocused, or worse, a dilettante. That was a hard pill to swallow, but I finally accepted that I did not fit into any one thing.
I love learning, exploring and fusing forms and ideas, just to see where they go. Bollywood Storm, is a two book novel, that does just that. It has many elements that bend the rules, as far as genre writing goes. It's a multi-cultural dark comedy that combines the Bollywood movie genre and American detective style story telling, and it's a mystical journey. It has all the elements of a Bollywood movie with drama, comedy, dance, romance and five song and dance numbers too!
As an person who loves the arts, I see few validates for boundaries, and quietly, or not so quietly, slip past imposed limitations and rules - not because I purposely challenge the attitudes that fashion the day, but because, most of the time, I don't see how it applies to the business of art making. Besides, I'm just too busy having the time of my life.
Cheers!
N K Johel