About the Artist
Hello! I'm the original artist and designer of all the art pieces you find here at the Corner of Aafia and Third.
As a Muslim woman scientist, artist, writer, and digital designer, my creations are multilayered: involving and reflecting multiple contexts to express my unique fingerprint on the world. Everyone’s fingerprint is unique. I’m honored to share an embodiment of mine with you here.
Abstraction, imagination, and iteration play a big role in my artistic process. As a digital artist, a key part of creativity for me, is memory. I think about memory, sensation, feeling, and experience from the dual lenses of my background in neuroscience to my own lived experiences.
Because I grew up spending so much time consuming art and design, the memories of the different roads that have been forged to construct meaning in my perspective cross culture, religion, nature, psychology, and literature.
Although I am a digital designer, I don’t prompt AI for any of these art pieces, each one emerges from my creative imagination, years of understanding, and skill to design, compose, and edit. When you purchase a piece from Aafia and Third, you’re helping to support a real original artist and designer, not an AI front.
The only reason my faith shows up in my art so much is because it shows up in my life so much. Geometric or an-iconic art (art that does not depict people/animals) is common among Muslims (because of the religious ruling(s) surrounding such art), so you will see abstraction is often reflected in my designs.
I hope my art facilitates both self-nurturing and other-nurturing.