Nothing is impossible
The last year has been very busy and inspiring for me. When the quarantine started, I wasn't sure what to do. I thought, I have time now and I can just do what I like, which is create pictures and patterns. So far I have been working on custom-made paintings and portraits, and designing fabric patterns has been my hobby. But now I have decided to use my time better. That's why I spent less time on SM and my blogs. I was totally focused on my creativity. I wrote about my first money making experience when I was a teenager. View post. It was a similar situation because then we lived behind the "Iron Curtain" and there was an economic crisis as well. Paradoxically, this is what triggered extraordinary creativity. Everyone was doing some craft: dresses made of cotton diapers for babies and cheap Chinese T-shirts and colorful jackets made of blankets, we made jewelry from polymer clay, we knitted fancy sweaters, hand-painted dresses made of sheets that were bought "under the counter". We worked 16-18 hours a day. And it made a lot of sense. It was then that the first private boutiques and private galleries appeared that looked like exotic flowers in the midst of communist greyness and hopelessness. It was the short time, just a few years, that foretold the coming collapse of communism. Today these years are called "Golden years of boutiques". Today, business is done completely differently, but this experience was important because it taught us to welcome changes with joy and to trust our own creativity.
A few years later I visited Paris and lived there in the third district called Art et Métiers and was able to observe the work of small companies producing for the fashion industry. It was especially inspiring to see how the Parisian Chinese community works and lives. For me, who spent most of my life in a politically isolated country, it was very inspiring and exotic. I also visited fashion salons and watched with admiration mesmerizing fashion shows on big screens in shops and on French TV. The great star was then living Yves Saint Laurent. I also had the opportunity to meet people working in this industry: designers and models, but I never thought about working in this industry. Horses were my passion and I dreamed of an ordinary life in the countryside. However, life unexpectedly showed me that these passions can be combined and that nothing is impossible.
In fact, I made my dreams come true and I moved to the countryside. I worked on a horse farm and gained experience as a horse and dog breeder. As a hippotherapist, I helped people with disabilities to stand on their own feet. My love for animals was reciprocated. I saw people struggling with the disease for many years began to walk again and talk even though it seemed impossible. I remember an old woman came to our treatment center after a stroke, completely paralyzed, and she suddenly got up from her wheelchair and started walking because she saw a herd of goats. Another man regained his memory when he saw a galloping horse. People with mental disabilities inspired by horseback riding began to write poems. This is only a small part of what I could see and experience at that time.
Horses and dogs became my teachers. I wrote and published a book about it. I was beginning to dream about my own therapeutic center. But my actions needed to be elevated to a higher level. And it was the last year 2020 that brought this great change in my life. A change that I completely did not expect. Yesterday I bought a new graphics tablet. This is my first major investment from the money earned from my designs. I'm so excited and inspired! Everything makes sense. Nothing is impossible!
Canis Art Studio