Nidhi Mariam Jacob On When Her Life Changed Completely

Timeline of the Video

0:18 – Introduction

2:01 – Huge transformation of life

“… And I met this fiercely independent woman, who had such strong values and ideas about life and what women should be and she had that belief in herself. I feel that at some point the friendship there turned into something more. I wondered, ‘what is happening to me?’ ‘What is going on here?’. I didn’t know whom to talk to and the funny thing is that I spoke to my mother at one point. I told her how I am not happy in my marriage and she already knew and she pointed out that I am smiling a lot these days.”

8:28 – People’s reaction to the transformation

11:26 – Managing her finances after separation

“…Because I initiated my separation I told the kids’ father, ‘You only pay for school fees and I will take care of everything else.’ Once it was agreed upon, it was then that I started wondering, ‘How am I going to do that?’ ‘How am I going to pay the rent?’ I have a little animal farm and a family of five lives there and I had to pay a salary to them.”

16:55 – An artist since childhood

16:57 – Inspiration from personal life

20:50 – Starting off her ‘Breathing Canvas’

25: 54 – A series dedicated to ‘orgasm flowers’

“…I wrote down the sensations when I feel an orgasm and it came out of nowhere. Then I painted a flower with that description and what was most fascinating for me was the kind of flower that I painted for myself based on the writing. It came from my imagination and it was like poetry.”

39:09 – Rapid fire round

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