As a visual artist, my artwork takes on a critical view of social, humanistic, and cultural issues observed in our society. What I really look for in a project is something that resonates with life as I see it, and speaks to our experiences as humans.

Due to my background in Islamic/fine art and being inspired by architecture, the base of my work starts off geometrically with monotones and with a solid foundation. Techniques used in most of my work are in mono color and range from portraiture, to geometrical representations, and overlapping elements in mazes. 

One of the earliest exhibitions that took place in Jeddah under a proper theme and curatorial narrative, known as “Fasla”, was curated by Dr. Effat Fadaq. As Assistant to the Curator, I worked on the visuals, print material, general coordination as well as the workshops for its educational component.

Having lived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, I observed that my community, specifically in this coastal city by the Red Sea, showed me the situation of invisible Spatial Alienation. This body of work, inspired by the architecture of malls and public places, shows the concept of how these commercial centers reflect civilizations throughout history. 

The topics of history, society, human nature, and identity are of great interest and curiosity to me and hence, make me a seeker in these realms. More specifically, my work created through research on these subjects talks about spatial alienation which is how we experience a sense of being away from home, foreign without leaving. The main cause for this proved to be the rigidity of the social structures which inhibit the residents from expressing and regulating their individual identity in public places.

Research on theoretical science and nature led me to focus on the Butterfly Effect Theory and create work based on how small changes in a seemingly unrelated thing or condition can affect the outcome of large, complex systems. The term comes from the suggestion that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in South America could affect the weather across the world, meaning that the tiniest influence on one part of a system can have a huge effect on another part.

The world may not change in an instant by art, but its slow and insipid spread into the active part of our brains’ lives to tell the tale.  It may leave the studio and make its way around the world, and yet come back to the studio where anything can happen. During my research and production new areas of interest arise and lead to the next body of work. It ranges from the context of shopping and commercial areas used as gathering places, to visual representations of sound and to going through multitudes of keys to find the answer to the self.