this is me.
My name is Faried. 30 years old Egyptian architectural engineer, but first, more importantly and most of all: I am an artist. I am fascinated with ideas. How to deliver ideas in the simplest way possible to reach all kinds of minds. Once I hear or read a new concept I immediately, involuntarily imagine how it could be simplified, purified and delivered in an artistic form. I am inspired by almost everything. Usually ideas hit me unannounced and in the strangest of all places and times. More often than not ideas come to me, not the other way around.
this happened:
A few years ago a man named "Kyle" reached out to me trying to get his hands on a print of mine that wasn't available for online purchase at that time. He told me his story:
“I am interested in a piece of artwork of yours. It is the two trees holding hands underneath the street. I am currently stationed in Iraq on a medical support mission and our anniversary is coming up...this picture has been a theme for my fiancé and myself for a while. I would LOVE to send her a print”...”This is my third tour to Iraq and our first as a couple. It’s been very hard on us. Your trees are so symbolic of what we are going through as we are worlds apart we still are connected. She found the image and sent it to me and I printed it out and put it on the wall above my bed next to her picture.”
I felt as if I have met them before already and that they have inspired me to it. So with no hesitation I made a special print with their names on it and sent it right away to Kyle.
“You have made the most special person in my life happy...and I can’t thank you enough. Things have been rough here in Iraq and even though I am on a medical support mission she takes it very hard...she cried and cried and cried when she got this...I think she was happier with this than when I asked her to marry me.”
Shortly after this heart-warming message, his fiancé sent me an even more touching one:
“When I opened the package and saw your print, I couldn’t help but cry. It touches me in a way that I can’t even begin to explain. Having the love of your life in a far of, war riddled country, is so incredibly difficult. But, our roots are strong, and even though we’re apart, we’ll always be together. And now I have a beautiful reminder hanging on my wall, and I can’t thank you enough for that.”
this happened too:
Back in 2014 I received a message on Tumblr that affected me deeply. It was probably the first time to realize that my work has actually changed someone’s life in a meaningful way.
a year later..
A year Later, the same Julia from before contacted me. She -among other students- asked to feature my work in the annual art exhibition at the faculty of design in Würzburg, Germany along with the book of design at the end of the same year.
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