Selhatso

Background briefing:
I was not born in a artist family, nor did I take any class of art in my school days. I have done my first sketch when I was 8 in Tibet, I was punished by my aunt to do my home work on the roof top for whole day. But there on the roof I was fascinated by the rocky mountain that embracing the town, they are so far away, so big and so beautiful, I took my note book which was blank on the back and started to draw, my first sketch, I can remember that was a very good drawing. Then the next day I sketched the Snow Mountain of three brothers.

My childhood was quite hard with poverties, my old sick father in the bed since I could remember, and farming mother to looking after 6 children. At age of five years sent away to my elder aunt, at seven when I came back, father passed away and mother got multi personality madness of oracles, only me and my sis were at home. Not more than one year mother went to India, I was left with my second aunt, there I was all alone, but I always imaging and making friends with animals. At age of ten, while I was in class five, aunt took me to India.

I herd my mother had become a nun, then I got admitted in TCV Upper Dharamsala, got blessing from His Holiness. I started to grow like other Tibetan children in the school under the love of a big home and Ama Jesun Pema La. All my studies supported by my German God mother Anjella Aschoff. But I always miss the beautiful home town mountains and flowers in the summer on that I used to lay and enjoying the colors of dancing flowers, once they were the only friend I have. World was so beautiful then. But I saw my mother after three years.

In TCV, we have a big Library; from class four I started get more attracted to those visual arts books. One day I saw acha Pekar sketching, I felt so wonderful to look at her, and then I started to draw again, sketching myself secretly. Until I was class six no one notice that I sketch well, then I got chance to paint for class project with wild animals of Tibet, all mates and teachers were impressed by those paintings.

From that onward, my contribution to the school in the field of art project, decorative, illustrations and competitions increases. Most of the spare time I used to sit alone and sketching from my own imagination. When I reached class nine, I was well known in the school as the artist. I did work on a lot of project on art on behalf of the school. Therefore when I finished my 12th science studies, our principal Mr. Karma Sither inspired me to continue and develop my talent, then he gave me a very special certificate which I will treasure for my entire life.

Then I joined SDPT Fine Art, I learnt the techniques and world of art, but I am still who I am, still sketching and painting from my own imagination in home along with the class works in the college. I started to know the depth of art, and see the truthful reality of life and combine with Buddhist background, I found happiness and fulfillment, the beautiful world of art makes me worth full to being alive as a good human being, otherwise sometimes realities are so heavy and fearful to load in to my small head.

I wanted to devote myself and my art to the Tibetan Culture, and humanity at large. So that my paintings could at least share the feelings inside those who look at my painting, their pain, their hardship, their confusion and their happiness, and make them to understand that life could be much happier and world more colorful and beautiful if you know the truth and accept those reality from positive frame.

Its so hard to drop my life in so brief, and harder to sum up the value of art in this page.

Long Live His Holiness the Dalai Lama!! May all the Refugees soon return to their homeland!!
May my small effort to humanity contribute an eye to all.

I see me everywhere !!!
I feel me on everything!!!!

I want to stop it!!!
Yet i want to set it free!!

I want to close my eyes but
the eyes on my soul wont close!!

its painful with open eyes
but more sorrowful with closed eyes!!!