“Beirut gave vandart its feminine appeal, while Dubai gave it something more grounded and familiar.”

“Sometimes the mistake becomes the most interesting part, the thing I spend the next month trying to recreate on purpose.”

“Minority communities have always used craft to document themselves, preserve their identities, and ensure they are not forgotten. For me, craft has always been a form of resistance…”

“I can see being playful as the main element of my practice, beauty from the unexpected
is something that I geek out for…”

“If I had to describe attachment, I would say that it feels warm and slightly damp…”

“What fascinates me is the moment when something begins to contradict itself…”

“Receiving the finished carpets felt almost like sending a message home and receiving one in return…”

“I spent the first few weeks of my final year, trying to communicate to my tutors that
‘stackable chairs are sexy’…”

“Because femininity is never only beautiful. It can also be rehearsed, dangerous, half-monstrous, half-alien…”

“AI allowed me to visualize moments that were never photographed and histories that only exist through speculation, memory, or storytelling…”

“Absence can articulate presence, just as presence can carry traces of absence…”

“These stories don’t lose power when they are rooted deeply in their origins, they actually become stronger…”

“The face can deceive or conceal, the body, on the other hand, is more honest…”

“Each piece is conceived almost like a character, with its own posture, gesture, and presence…”

“A module that is central for one composition, can become peripheral simply through recontextualization…”

“I have never formally learned flowers from anyone. YouTube is my teacher…”

“If an object can serve a new purpose while retaining its original form, the memories embedded in it may remain—if only as a faint silhouette…”

“Many overlooked structures contain forms of intelligence that formal architecture still struggles to achieve consistently…”

“After years of chasing precision, I found myself going backwards, painting things that fade away more and more”

“I became deeply aware of how tradition can be both comforting and restrictive… My work often exists in that tension between attachment and resistance…”

“I became very attentive to the body not just as a silhouette, but as a landscape of tensions and vulnerabilities…”

“The work is a lot about observing… but also making use of uncertainties and risks that grow meaningful over time…”

“Texture is something that can carry so much information. It can be memories, sensations, feelings, notions, ideas and so much more.”

“Survival, in this sense, is not merely continuity but the capacity to accommodate contradiction, and cultivate unforeseen trajectories…”

“I’m drawn to how the city holds opposites at once: tradition and the contemporary, the Han River and mountains alongside dense concrete skylines…”

“I began exploring Google Maps Street View as a kind of digital nomad, revisiting familiar places I could no longer access physically…”

“a bridge is built when a presumption is challenged, a story is reframed, or a point of identification emerges…”

“We meet as  strangers and often leave as friends…”

“When an image becomes a piece of you, it stops being just a picture and starts becoming a story…”

“preserving textile knowledge is not only about heritage, but also about protection, dignity, and future livelihoods…”

“My work turns objects into vessels of feeling, inviting viewers to witness the inner world we all carry.”

“I need to feel the painting vibrate through the succession of overlapping layers beneath the surface…”

“Discovering materials gradually drew me away from industrial design and toward shaping them…”

“The name loops back on itself, much like our work often does.”

“I like  when an image shifts between tenderness  and tension, when something familiar starts  to feel strange.”

”I am building my own archive of material and memory, but it is also a space where other people’s histories and perspectives can exist alongside mine.”

“When I realized I wasn’t nearly brave enough to ride a motorbike, I told myself I’d draw them instead!”

“For a piece to become a visual trap, it needs to surprise, question, and invite touch…”

“reclamation means shifting the gaze…”

“When I create, I feel like I become a medium too, a material through which a bigger energy can express itself…”

“garments (…) carried stories, not because we made them  ourselves, but because they travelled through time.”

“The person who built this amusement park neither owns it nor visits it…”

“That negotiation, that dance between the intentions and the material’s stubborn will that’s where everything lives…”

“I’m not trying to invent anything new … I’m just trying to make work that nourishes my soul and hopefully nourishes the souls of others too…”

“I want them to reflect on the profound impact of conflict on everyday life and to consider the untold stories these silent witnesses carry within them…”

“I have a nostalgic relationship with this era that I never knew, so it’s as if I were immersing myself in it…”

“I try to create a perceptual space where the gaze moves between appearance and disappearance…”

“It’s chaotic, beautiful, and free, just like the way we create…”