Artist Statement
As an immigrant of a Middle Eastern descent, traveling between Egypt and New York, the artist continues to experience the vast similarities between both eastern and western cultures and hopes to capture those similarities in her artwork. Inspired by the power of storytelling, the artist attempts to visualize the complicated emotions and experiences she undergoes after her exposure to a story. Her tools include ink, pen and a sketchbook, the content comes from external stimuli: a film, a song, a book, an encounter, or simply a quote, which invariably captures the human experience.
Toward that end, she finds herself mostly influenced by children's literature - those that capture the element of storytelling in an educational and entertaining manner. Storytelling through images, she feels, offers an empowering platform where the viewer can communicate with the story in a universal language. Barriers are thus nonexistent and vanish amidst visual communication.
As an immigrant of a Middle Eastern descent, traveling between Egypt and New York, the artist continues to experience the vast similarities between both eastern and western cultures and hopes to capture those similarities in her artwork. Inspired by the power of storytelling, the artist attempts to visualize the complicated emotions and experiences she undergoes after her exposure to a story. Her tools include ink, pen and a sketchbook, the content comes from external stimuli: a film, a song, a book, an encounter, or simply a quote, which invariably captures the human experience.
Toward that end, she finds herself mostly influenced by children's literature - those that capture the element of storytelling in an educational and entertaining manner. Storytelling through images, she feels, offers an empowering platform where the viewer can communicate with the story in a universal language. Barriers are thus nonexistent and vanish amidst visual communication.
