Artistic workshop instead of school class: Drawing bright wishes in the darkness of life

On the day I was deprived of my school and university, I was deprived of my education, and the doors of dreaming were closed for me, but I am not surrendering and giving up and in other words, “I am not the willow that shivers from every wind!” That is why I will benefit from every opportunity, every window and every opportunity to move forward in my life and to get closer to my dreams.

Today I have turned to the art of painting and have mobilized all my love and energy to achieve success along the way. The day I can love what I have in mind with the help of art, I will show the world how capable I am and if they had not blocked the way and trampled on my talents, I could have crossed the high and difficult peaks of knowledge and knowledge.

These are the words of a girl sitting next to me, holding the handle of her purse tightly and talking, looking up at the sky to prevent tears from spilling over her cheeks.

The girl repeated a beautiful sentence among her stories: “I am a foreigner in my homeland,” a hard bitter truth that is understandable to all talented Afghan girls, especially the Bamyan girls. The sheer truth is that the ambitious dreams of depriving girls from school and university were filled overnight and cremated to ashes.

Sixteen-year-old Asma paints and wants to serve people with her art and save herself from complete destruction. “If a man has no hope is dead.” She likes to visualize all her dreams and transfer positive messages to the people.

In the two years since she has been out of school, she has kept himself busy with painting and learning language, creating less darkness in the shadow of increasing restrictions in her life. The art of painting is very attractive to her, as she herself says, “Art is beautiful!”

“I’d like to depict the situation in Afghanistan someday,” she continued, turning his eyes around. Then she chokes her throat and sobbes, “When I miss school so much, I wish it was a school class.

Fourteen-year-old Nadia also spends part of her time studying the art of painting besides going to English classes. To ease his pain, he wants to learn art, so that by creating an atmosphere of entertainment and engagement, she can make the conditions even more bearable.

“I want to portray the unspoken things inside me,” said she, who smiled innocently at times while speaking, and sweetened his words. When I become a skilled painter, what is going on in Afghanistan will be the subject of my first artwork.”

Nadia misses the beautiful days she has had with her friends and classmates. When she paints, she always says to himself, “It’s good to have at least one here.”

Girls’ exclusion from education has had many negative effects on their lives. Closing the gates of schools and universities has put them under severe psychological pressure. Therefore, they strive to continue their growth by learning new arts and skills in other ways.

Among them are those who are taking steps to support girls deprived of education to help them cope with this difficult situation.

Reza Hussaini, a teacher at an art institute in Bamyan who graduated from Kabul University of Fine Arts and has been working in the art fields for more than five years, claims that he does not use his art to earn money or gain personal interests, but his aim is creating a platform for girls and spiritual support for them.

Most of the people Hossaini teaches are girls, but their numbers are changing because with every new restriction that comes into force, the quantity of female students in the classroom is also reduced.

Ummul-Banin is seventeen and has been creating pictures with other friends in an art workshop for two months. During the time she plays at the art center, everyone is happy with her work. She would like to learn this career more professionally. That’s why she cooperates with her professor on clients’ orders every day.

The teenage girl was a 10^th grade student when the school gate was closed to her and drove her into the wilderness of despair. In order to make good use of the time and opportunity she has, she paints and calligraphy and engravings on wooden boards. The deprivation of education had tormented Umm al-Banin spiritually, and this became a terrible nightmare for her.

Asked what subject she would form her first work of art, Ummul Banin said: “My first professional work will be the girl who has achieved her dreams.”

Fatema Salehi, who graduated from Bamyan University’s Tourism College, is another girl who has been studying painting for a year. She likes to paint to keep his soul calm all time. She believes that by painting she can convey a lot of messages to people and paint an image she loves.

The words of these girls, each carrying great hopes and indescribable sorrows in their minds, and in their breasts, greatly distress me. Nevertheless, the persistence I saw in them is admirable, promising change and change in the future, for they are moving steadily, with all the constraints that have cast a heavy shadow over their lives, still hopeful, purposefully try and draw wishes; something that will surely make everyone separate from ethnic, religious affiliations, regardless of being attributed to gender groups and limited in terms of political, cultural and cultural beliefs and beliefs. They will be able to express their talents and free will toward their goals and aspirations.