{"id":32429,"date":"2025-12-05T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/?p=32429"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:38:04","slug":"enoch-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/2025\/12\/05\/enoch-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Enoch A"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"32429\" class=\"elementor elementor-32429\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6edac4e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6edac4e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8fd395 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b8fd395\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\tYear of birth: 2007<br>\nWhere do you live: Tamil Nadu, India<br>\nYour education: Medical student \/ Medicos<br>\nDescribe your art in three words: Soul \u00b7 Pain \u00b7 Rebirth<br>\nYour discipline: Visual Art (Graphite, Charcoal, Mixed Media) + Poetry<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/drawingprofessor_xcelebarts\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2458da e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f2458da\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1e2b53 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b1e2b53\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Enoch-A-The-Power-Of-Light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" \/> Enoch A | The Power Of Light<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When did you first realize that art was your way of expressing emotions that are difficult to put into words?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I actually found my passion without even knowing. Art didn\u2019t appear to me suddenly \u2014 it happened quietly, without my awareness. The real moment was when I was watching Blood Lovers (30 episodes). That series hurt me so deeply that something inside me dropped and opened. I became emotional in a way I had never felt before. That was the moment I realized art was the only way I could express what my heart couldn\u2019t speak. That moment made me an artist.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your works often explore pain, rebirth, and inner healing. Are these themes drawn from personal experiences?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absolutely yes.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My art is my life story. My rebirth is real. There are days I become completely demotivated \u2014 when I feel I can\u2019t reach my idol, I can\u2019t reach my inspiration, and I feel like I\u2019m losing myself.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One day I heard a song \u2014 \u201c\u00d6l\u00fcm\u00fcne\u201d by Bar\u0131\u015f Baktas. That one song brought me back to life. Because of that, I drew Rebirth.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every emotion in my work \u2014 pain, healing, rising \u2014 is personal, real, and lived.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Enoch-A-Try-To-Achieve-The-Way-Of-Light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1361\" \/> Enoch A | Try To Achieve The Way Of Light<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do you decide which medium to use \u2014 graphite, charcoal, ink, or mixed media?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This answer is perfect already.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It depends completely on the emotional weight of the artwork.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some emotions need softness (graphite).\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some emotions need intensity (charcoal).\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some need sharp truth (ink).\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The medium chooses itself depending on the story.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Symbolism is a strong element in your pieces. Which symbols appear most often and what do they mean?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eyes \u2013 they represent the truth hidden under pain.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shadows \u2013 fear.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broken textures \u2013 emotional wounds that never heal but still try to rise, still try to reach their idol.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life-free patterns \u2013 returning, rebirthing, starting again.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These symbols are my emotional alphabet.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Enoch-A-Silent-Rebirth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" \/> Enoch A | Silent Rebirth<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your artworks have a dramatic atmosphere with strong contrasts and minimal shading. How did you develop this visual language?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It came naturally \u2014 from my emotional life. Even when I see my idol, I get extremely emotional.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My heart burns. It feels like thousands of arrows stuck into my chest.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For one to one-and-a-half months, I cried every single day.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every day.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Night and morning. Because my idol did not see my tears.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That pain automatically shaped my dramatic style \u2014 the contrasts, the shadows, the intensity. My art is born from that fire.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Enoch-A-Shelby-Newspaper-Art.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1369\" \/> Enoch A | Shelby Newspaper Art<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What emotions or messages do you hope viewers feel when they look at your more introspective and darker works?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want them to feel what I feel.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want my heart to reach their heart.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If even one person feels my emotion, then I win. Even if my work gets only one view \u2014 that one view is a victory.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who or what inspires you?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My greatest inspiration is Bar\u0131\u015f Baktas.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His storytelling, his emotions, his smile, his professional life, his personal love \u2014 he wins in both life and art.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He made me stand stronger.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I cry every day because I want to meet him next year.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I won\u2019t stop until I reach that dream.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a time when a rumor about him spread.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He didn\u2019t care.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He stood for himself.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That moment changed me.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It taught me to stand for myself even when no one cares about my story.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My feelings matter.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My art matters.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My voice matters.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My own song expresses this part of me:<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I get soo much of pain and breakdown i write this\u2026<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Song \u2013 \u201cThe Real Me\u201d (by Enoch A)<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m just a shadow, drawing things in the dark,\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every line I make is a beat from my heart,\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The words move fast, but I stay still,\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holding on to places, I can\u2019t reach, but I feel,<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shine on my screen, but I see,\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My soul and the rise I find,\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pieces stay still,\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cause I\u2019m not broken, I\u2019m just unseen,<\/p><p>Living in colors the world&#8217;s never seen,<\/p><p>Another version of me is crying to be free,<\/p><p>Oh, can you hear me?<\/p><p>Can you hear the real me?<\/p><p>Bar\u00e1n (Bar\u0131\u015f Baktas), Pedro, Messi,<\/p><p>They light up the sky,<\/p><p>And they chase their fire,<\/p><p>I don&#8217;t ask why,<\/p><p>My art is my voice,<\/p><p>The tears are my ink,<\/p><p>pain is the ocean,<\/p><p>I will never sink,<\/p><p>They say I drink too much,<\/p><p>The dreams are what I breathe,<\/p><p>I turn my scars into stars,<\/p><p>And my silence into belief,<\/p><p>I&#8217;m not broken, I&#8217;m just unseen,<\/p><p>Living in colors the world&#8217;s never seen,<\/p><p>Another version of me is crying to be free,<\/p><p>Someday you will see,<\/p><p>Someday you will see,<\/p><p>The real me.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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