The 'I' Manifesto

Art does not imitate life.

Why should it?  Life is interesting enough.

Then, Art heightens our sense – often quiet and hidden – of what we already know about life.

I want to help people remember their own footprints in the sand.

I will be bold. I will be eccentric.  I will tell stories, as anti-modern as it sounds.  And I will dance to the music.  Not always, but enough to make you wonder what box I fit in.

I will not fit into a box.

I will not be defined, but I will be clear.

I will not use you as my psychological and emotional dumping ground.  I am not as interested in me as I am in stretching me.

I will stretch the imagination.  I will step into someone else’s shoes.

I don’t need to change the world.

I don’t mind being moved… Stop.  That is a lie.

I live to move and be moved.

I have no opposition to that which is grand and moving in its grandiose spectacle.

Yes to drama.  No to indulgence.  Yes to craft that walks a fine line between the two.

Yes to skill and sweat and transformation.

Yes to wonder.

Yes to BIG eyes.

Yes to my ancestors

Yes to the future.

Yes to the moment that erases the line between I…

and You.

~ Sheetal