The Artist from Two Different Worlds

Published15 December 2016

Reading Time 2 mins

Author Stories of Nepal

Location Nepal

"My dad grew up in the villages of Nepal and moved to Kathmandu later. My mom grew up in small town Minnesota. And in her twenties she was doing a lot of traveling and she went to Europe, doing all sorts of things there, and living on a farm there and doing camps and stuff and then she decided to go to Nepal. She lived in the villages for a while and eventually moved to Kathmandu. She met my dad at the church there. And my dad instantly wanted to marry her, and she didn't know who he was really. The other people at the church really wanted them to get together so they arranged dinner parties so they happened to be at the same place. Long story short, they got married, so I grew up in a family from two different worlds. I lived in Kathmandu until I was thirteen and moved here. Here, I got plugged into the the art community in high school and now I am art major in college. My artwork comes from so much of who I am that I have noticed that my artwork tends to merge these entirely different two worlds. Even subconsciously, I will realise that my designs and ideas and patterns that have their roots in Nepal. They way I see things and the way two different worlds merge is something I can only express through my art." (Anamika Gurung, Los Angeles, California)

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