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VERMILLION LIT

DIVINE DISORDER SEEKS WITNESS!

DISORDER

Issue 1

JULY 2025

Alcestis

by

Nysa Chaturvedi

The cover art for our first issue is 'Alcestis' by Nysa Chaturvedi. 

This piece perfectly encapsulates the tone and style that Vermillion Lit aims to curate, as well as displays where we are starting and where we aim to go. 

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About Nysa

Nysa describes herself as an artist, writer, illustrator, and orator. 
She is a fifteen-year-old high school student who says she may not have all the answers, but give her a pen and she'll draw and sketch her way through them.

'Art has always defined me, even as a five-year-old running around with a crayon in my hand,' she says.
'Now, we define each other. Art is a shadow that
attaches itself, one that lights up the darkness and stays right behind you in the light. It always exists.'

'There's a quote I hold close: "Art disturbs the comforted and comforts the disturbed"
Maybe some people forgot about it, and perhaps some never heard it.
To me, art isn't about aesthetics. It represents and oozes emotions out of every flicker; yet I needn't feel anything to make it.
I can't call it a form of expression either, because feeling turns into focus. Into escape. It's to exist, to live. It's an almost amusing contradiction, to pour out my heart into my work, yet escape the
feelings all at once.'

Nysa has many achievements, including having an article published in The Times of India, exhibiting her artwork twice at the prestigious ITC Rajputana Hotel, where one of her paintings was sold, and winning multiple interstate art competitions and a national-level award. 

She is currently working on a project that amalgamates literature, art, and love by using books as a canvas to bring to life an Indian legend. She also co-manages an Instagram initiative to bring forward societal changes.
When she's not creating art, she enjoys reading, debating, journaling, or conceptualising ways to make a tiny dent in the universe.

Connect with Nysa

Art portfolio (Instagram): @shot.of.picasso
Social impact (Instagram): @we.need.equality.justice

Want your art to feature on our covers?

Send your work to vermillionlitmag@gmail.com along with your artwork, a bit about the piece, and a short bio attached.

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Artwork: 'Alcestis' by Nysa Chaturvedi

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