When art transcends sketching

If anyone ever doubted that the seed must die before it can sprout, then Bonno Lauryn Kebualemang bears enough testimony of the assertion.

Without a doubt, art is an inborn ability for her, but for years she tucked it away and almost forgot she ever held a pencil in her life. By her own admission, when she studied to be a librarian, she never thought one day she would be back doing something art-related.

"I always had a gift in art," says the lone wolf. "I would draw, paint and scribble quite a lot." As she grew up, past junior high school, she seemingly grew too big for the pencil. In as far as she was concerned, art as a junior high school subject was the closest she would ever come to pursuing her passion. And her choice to study towards being a librarian dragged her even further away from her childhood love - art. At the end of her degree programme, she got immersed in the market place. Art was dead and buried. But as fate would have it, she rediscovered herself and quit an apparently stable job that gave her consistent income.  More than ever before, she began to hark back to her junior high school teacher's conviction that she was a cut above the rest in the subject.

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