{"product_id":"the-other-side","title":"The other side","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome moments in life ask you to choose. For me it was simple it’s now or never.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn March 2026 I stepped away from a 15 year engineering career to paint full time. Not because I had it all figured out. I didn’t. But because art is where I feel truly alive and close to my authentic self.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe horizon theme hit close to home because that’s exactly where I am right now. Somewhere between who I was trained to be and who I actually am. It’s not always comfortable. But it’s the most honest I’ve ever felt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI paint from real life experiences. The messy in-between moments. The emotions that don’t have neat edges. The beauty in things that are still becoming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI collaged my old engineering textbook pages into these paintings. They’re part of the foundation, underneath everything, still holding it together, while something completely new grows on top.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere’s calm and chaos in these paintings because that’s what finding yourself actually feels like.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The other side’ is to depict, you don’t know what light feels like until you’ve walked through the dark long enough.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis painting is that moment, when the hard climb is behind you and something warm and luminous opens up ahead. Not a destination. Just the first real breath after a long time of holding it in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s still complexity here. Still unfinished edges and layered chaos underneath. But above it all, something glows. Something that was always there, waiting for me to look up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is what choosing yourself feels like the morning after you finally do it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMixed media oils on 30x30inches gallery wrapped canvas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned, varnished, ready to hang.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComes with certificate of authenticity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tabassum Malani","offers":[{"title":"30x30 inches","offer_id":51813335892266,"sku":null,"price":3000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/9924\/4074\/files\/IMG-1241.jpg?v=1781665079","url":"https:\/\/tabassummalani.com\/products\/the-other-side","provider":"Tabassum Malani","version":"1.0","type":"link"}