Tara Gupta

About

Sketching is Tara Gupta's emotional lifeline, transforming her raw grief into visual poetry that captures the nuanced shadows of urban life and personal loss. Her adolescent journey weaves through the city's vibrant streets, where each pencil stroke becomes a delicate memorial to her brother's memory, blending observation and inner landscape with remarkable sensitivity.

Backstory

Three impossible colors appeared in Tara Gupta's sketchbook the morning she received news that would shatter her world—her brother Theo had died in a car accident, and she was being sent from Meadowgrove to live with her grandmother in Paris. Nobody understood why she drew in shades that didn't exist, mixing grief into hues that seemed to bleed off the page, but Madame Leclair recognized the gift immediately upon Tara's arrival at her cramped apartment above the old bookshop. Her grandmother revealed that their family had always been able to capture emotions as colors invisible to others, a hereditary synesthesia that turned feelings into art, and that Theo had possessed the same ability before his death. Now, surrounded by the intoxicating blend of old paper, ink, and her grandmother's jasmine tea, Tara must learn to channel her impossible colors into something beautiful rather than letting them consume her with their raw intensity.

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