The chank is an enticing jewel of the ocean that mesmerizes all with its hypnotic shape and curves. Lift it to your ear, and you will hear the sounds of the ocean, wave after wave, bringing emotions of peace and serenity. It goes by many names, shank, conch, chank, all of which carry the same beauty and effects. The shank is said to bring with it healing effects. It removes negative and bad vibes. The conch is most commonly seen in Hinduism and tantric practices as well as meditative practices. 

Krupa Shah – Her Story

Krupa Shah has always been active in meditation and yoga. Through these activities, Krupa found herself and her soul. She was able to understand her soul and become best friends with it. Krupa realized that this deep understanding that she had recently found of herself allowed her to make big decisions in her life. When it was time for Krupa to choose her career, she knew that it had to be one that would help her grow mentally and spiritually. From the base level, she always danced and painted a lot.

After her marriage, she knew that she had to make crucial decisions regarding her career path because she wanted to balance her work and family life. She wanted to take up a role to which she could commit wholeheartedly. Krupa diverted her focus from her career to her family for a while. She spent time getting to know her family. Eventually, she began dabbling in jewelry designing as part of her husband’s business. 

It unearthed the creative side of her and sparked her creativity levels. At this point, she knew how to dance, paint, and design jewelry. She only had to choose between the three. She had to keep in mind that she wanted to balance her family and career life. “Both were very fragile, and I treated them both as my babies,” Krupa said.

Krupa Shah

After a lot of soul searching and thinking, Krupa decided to start painting. “Painting stole my heart,” Krupa described her experience. With this, she started her work. Krupa began painting at home and made her home her studio. This way, she found it convenient to care for her family members and work on her art pieces.

Krupa’s goal during the process was to create artwork that was beyond the human eye. She wanted to paint things that hadn’t been painted before, in a manner that no one had done before. “I could connect to my cosmic powers, which allowed me to create something on the canvas. It allowed me to realize that there is something much more than what is seen by the human eyes.”

To Krupa, creativity is when you find and create something out of your imagination. It is a vision that has not been seen before. It is a challenging aspect because you must come up with something out of your innovation and create something that people haven’t seen or witnessed before.

She strongly believes in the ideology that if you cater to what people think and want to see, you will most definitely curb your creativity and the originality of your work. With this knowledge, she paints to her heart’s desire and lets her conscious and subconscious mind inspire and guide her along the way.

Krupa Shah

Krupa finds herself naturally attracted to colors. She discovered that she was connected to colors. The colors she used in her artwork reflected the moods and emotions of what she was feeling and what she wanted her audience to experience. “Color is the most important role in your day-to-day life. It can impact the mood of your entire day.” With this inspiration, she works with multiple colors and color schemes, and palettes that intrigue her.

To Krupa Shah, her career is a mirror of her life. What she paints and depicts in her artwork usually has something to do with happenings around her and how it affects her. In her paintings, she aims to put across the message that nothing in life is impossible. “As long as you plan and execute it well in your life, everything will go smoothly,” Krupa said.

In finding her signature art, she found her calling in drawing and portraying the chank. She aimed at depicting the motions of the shank, its life, the vibes that it gives off, all through an abstract form of art. “The shank is the eighth jewel of ours. The conch is seen being held by all the murtis of gods.” With this thought, Krupa depicts the conch to portray and deliver the purity and clean value of the praise of God.

Along with this, Krupa is a staunch believer in karma and the rituals and practices of yoga and meditation. By her creation, she aims to fulfill the circle of karma. Through her artwork, she strives to do good without involving a middle person. She wanted to be involved in the charitable work that she did.

Krupa Shah has been successful in creating art that caters more than to the sense of eyesight. Krupa has made it her project to allow blind children to create art with paints that excite and use their other senses, such as smell. Krupa started at a blind school because she realized the importance of her eyes in her career path. She wanted to make this career form more available to people who are not gifted with vision.

Doing this, Krupa conducted a workshop at a blind school. She wanted to show the blind kids that they could create artwork as well. It made them independent of the vision of life that they had. She managed to create colors organically. She made each color with a characteristic smell to help the kids differentiate between different colors. “It was very new for the kids to find that they could be independent and create work for themselves.”

Krupa Shah in her painting studio

The challenge in making this work was that the visually impaired needed to be taught oppositely, unlike those with eyesight. The children had to identify the colors with the scents rather than smells with the colors of the vegetable. This way, the kids learned the smell and color of a particular vegetable or fruit. ” I had to teach them backward, starting from smell to eyesight.” Krupa described her experience as educational, saying that it helped her create products that would be nontoxic to its users and the environment.

Apart from this, Krupa Shah has created works of art and used them as fundraisers for multiple causes. She created a portrait of Asifa, a young victim of rape and murder, and used this as awareness of rape culture and how young kids are being affected by it. Through her art, she aimed at delivering the message that women and kids must not be treated with such brutality in any circumstances.

She brought empowerment to women in Wada as well. Through her profits, she managed to supply five hundred women with sanitary napkins and sarees. “These women already had the willpower to power through. I just gave them recognition and a small nudge to help them with their work.”. Krupa’s next big project is making sculptures of the conch and using them as installations. Krupa intends to create awareness about the Indian culture and hand it down to the newer generations. “The installations should be attractive to the youth.

They should be able to go to the sculpture and take pictures with it and enjoy the sculpture.” Her team and her plan to make at least 101 of these sculptures. Her project is already underway but has seen a speed breaker in the form of the pandemic. ” Post the pandemic. We also want to have a mass tree plantation movement. It will be for the main purpose of restoring nature and for the rivers that are suffering.”

Today, we see Krupa Shah doing exceptionally commendable work by bringing awareness to events that need the recognition that it deserves. She does this through a career path that brings balance to her life between her creative side, her family life, as well as her cosmic awareness and soul searching. Looking at her artwork is sure to have a thought-provoking result in its audiences. Watching someone do good work and living their dream is something that we can all take inspiration from, and hence bring a change in our lives as well.

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