Murugiah

I had no real expectations.

I was just very happy and content with these pieces I was making.

They felt truly personal to me.

The work I was making from 2019 up to 2023 was about developing a visual aesthetic, but it didn't really...

have this very core emotional thing that I'm obsessed with, this connecting with your feelings, this sensitivity.

I wasn't ready to put it in the work at that point.

It was very much about describe or present a visual aesthetic of bright colors, busy compositions, influenced by South Asian culture and Western upbringing.

But now it's time to...

just turn the dial up a little bit more and add this emotional heft to each piece so personally i just felt very confident in presenting those ideas so i thought it was the right time to speak to someone about it and see if i could share them with somebody and luckily very luckily they responded in a big way

I've said it just now, I transitioned from architecture to illustration and art in 2012, but my true love was art and movies when I was 18.

So it was 20 years since I went to architecture school.

It's been...

a long time, let's say, to finally living in the moment, living in the present, just exploring what you want to explore next.

But that comes with a lot of privilege, right?

I have enough clients and work.

Don't get me wrong, I still struggle every month, every year.

In brutal honesty, I made half as much money as I did the previous two years this year.

I made half as much money.

My income dropped from whatever to half of that.

And that is scary stuff.