Happy new me

First blog post ever, welcome to Souria in Résidence. A space or journal I've worked on launching for so long because I grew tired of communicating in small caption on my socials. Here, I'll have some time to explain, show a bit more about my art or current feelings, projects or inspirations! Gotta use my degree in literature too, ha! 

I may have used the word "new" a lot lately not just because we are starting off 2025 but also because I feel like I need a fresh start with my art. I felt stuck these past few months on what I wanted to draw, what's the message of it all. I still want to draw my iconic F1 things because it's part of me, a part of the child in me especially; hence the featured image of 5 year old me drawing, I'd like to retrieve that feeling of just having fun drawing. I love the aesthetics and stories surrounding F1, racing etc - but I want to expand my themes and mediums. I’m trying to work out some concept things, to loosen up; by focusing more on using color, texture and direction to convey feeling in my drawings rather than technical detail with lots of lines, basically saying more with less as a way to get the to the emotion. 

I make a promise to myself, kind of, to really attempt new art genres and techniques, to not stay in my comfort zone, all of this with less perfectionism, please!

Because “done” is better than nothing done... It’s tempting to hold off on applying to something, starting a special painting, or showing your work until you feel like "yeah that's perfect". But I guess I’ll never feel any art of mine will be perfect. I may never feel good enough and that's ok. Getting it done, even if it doesn’t turn out as good as I had hoped is better than waiting and never doing it at all :) So here's this new year mantra. Getting original things done. 

I'll finish by saying a big thanks to each person who's following my bumpy art journey, supporting the shop etc. Never goes unnoticed. 

As a conclusion of these posts I'll try to add my inspiration of the moment (art, music, poems...)

• Music of the past month for me was "Concrete Kisses" by Zayn especially these fitting lyrics:

 < tap to listen on Spotify

• the art piece that's stuck on my mind is "Babel 2001" that's I've seen at the Tate Modern London. It resonated with me because I feel even though we've got all those media platforms, they feel empty or shallow nowadays, the same thing's on repeat there, with the same trendy musics - we're not really communicating nor sharing with meaning. I hope this blog will enable me to have my cool platform as an alternative and that you'll like it :)

 

happy new year, happy new me hopefully...