BIOGRAPHY

I am an artist and architect working in the Washington, D.C. area. I obtained my Masters of Architecture degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ) '05 and a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) '00. I have been drawing and painting since childhood years, and consider art and aesthetics to be a part of everything I do.

My art and architectural work is an exploration and process of encouraging myself, and the viewer or inhabitant to look closer for the inspiration, to reflect on the relevance to our experiential lives, and to realize the beautiful. Being an architect makes me feel a bit like the puppeteer, Geppetto. It is as if life gets breathed into a design when construction begins, and the structure takes on a whole new character onto itself; it's nothing less than magic!



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I am a living, thinking, feeling human being. I am an artist.

One day after prayer, while I was making supplication, I became distracted by my hands, and how multi-colored they were; these were the hands that God had given me: dark under the nails, brown on the outside, white on the inside, and a blended line of distinction down the profile of my hand.

I thought of a line from a book I had recently read, written by Seyyed Hossein Nasr,

............."The world is both beyond us and within us."

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The diversity of the world exists within all of us.

The ability and potential to embrace this diversity also exists within all of us.

And what we can do with our hands to contribute to the nourishment of this diversity is boundless.

"And there is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah; and Allah is full of kindness to his devotees." (Surah Al Baqarah; Ayah 207)


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