The other side

Tabassum Malani

You don’t know what light feels like until you’ve walked through the dark long enough. This 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. There’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. This is what choosing myself feels like.