Excited to be part of the Steem community

Hello everyone,

My name is Shivani. I am an artist and really quite energised to learn about this technology, this community. To listen to and be heard by a community that engages actively. I would love to hear inspirational views and lives of you all in this community and what makes you tick.
As an artist, i draw inspiration from the lives of people , their challenges and means of overcoming them, the joys and sorrows that we feel- because ultimately we all experience the same life- just in different forms and through different lenses. As an example, I am currently working on a series of abstract portraits.

The idea is to paint a person- not how they look but to highlight a characteristic of them that a viewer can identify with so that the viewer sees themselves as the person in the portrait.

Here is the “woman in Red”
It is a painting of a woman who worked and succeeded in an environment where all here colleagues had every molecule in their body filled with testosterone!
Here is another of the lead ballerina of the HongKong BAllet who wants to be remembered not for her grace and beauty but for inspiring a generation of dancers because at age 16 she reached out , took the risk to travel to an unknown land

Thank you and I look forward to a wonderful community participation.
Shivani