SpeakLove, Always
“Speak Love” is the basis to why I want to build this brand - Speak Love to self because I believe loving and caring for yourself is important. Speak Love to others and loved ones for encouraging someone goes a long way, acts or words of love can be very empowering. I also want to specially Speak Love to the mental health community, to make a positive impact and difference to those who are afflicted by mental illness, by speaking about my own battle and recovery from mental illness. Art is truly nourishing for our souls.
- Sin Yi Esther (Founder)
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Sin Yi was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder at age 24 and university life was disrupted. These days, she spends most of her time creating artworks in a home-studio and has since founded an art and lifestyle brand, SpeakLove Co, in January 2018. Through creating sincere art and sharing honest narratives, Sin Yi hopes to share more about the importance of one’s mental health and well-being.
By opening up her life in sharing personal experiences living with Bipolar Disorder, she hopes it will enable others to look at mental illnesses in a different and positive light. She hopes to encourage fellow persons-in-recovery and caregivers that they are not alone in this journey. As she creates different artworks, she believes that in the same way, each person is like a beautiful artwork, each life is a masterpiece.
Creating with Colors, Celebrating Lives & Championing Mental Health Causes
Taking a deep breath and dipping the brush into wet paint…the hand glides along the canvas and the paintbrush dances. Her mind comes alive, spotting every pigment, envisioning which color comes next. It happens instantaneously, as if the steps were pre-recorded, rehearsed a dozen times. It feels almost as natural as breathing, the rhythms of the brush strokes…
It has been awhile since it occurred to her that she has once lost control of what went on her mind. The long and cold days when she lived in a daze, unaware of the people and her surroundings. Nothing was registered or absorbed – not even her love for people-watching nor the fuzzy feelings she used to have when beautiful colors came to sight. Is there even anything on her mind…? Why is she all quiet…? Has she lost… her soul? Bipolar Disorder slipped its way into her life and taken over for a season. Creating, is like a form of redeeming grace that she received since recovery began. The colors re-entered her life in the form of pencils and a coloring book, which was gifted to her by her brother in the hospital. It is a long healing process, to comprehend that she can create once again. Her mind has been redeemed and is restoring.
With the completion of every painting, it is a reminder to her that each artwork is like a life in her hands where she creates with colors and patterns …each work is a unique masterpiece. Just as how she believes each life has a Creator, whose very hands are imprinted all over each masterpiece - He is not ready to let go or to stop unless He says the masterpiece is completed. And He has never let her go.