I was born in Copenhagen to a Moroccan-Iraqi heritage. My interest in painting began when I was a child. Splashing paint and exploring nature is a fascinating thing for every child.

I hold a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Cultural Encounters and a Master’s degree in Modern Culture. I grew up in a spiritual household, raised by my mother, who is a healer and an Amazigh (Berber) woman from Morocco. My grandmother, even though I’ve never met her, is one of my greatest inspirations. She was a powerful indigenous woman, deeply connected to her divine femininity, intuitive and magical. She shaped the way I view life and the role of aesthetics within it.

I have always been interested in the more abstract dimensions of life. I explored this interest through different religions, mysticism, New Age spirituality and eventually the promises of self-help culture. Later leading me to the study of metaphysics and the ontological and epistemological questions of the human paradigm.

Where I find myself now is in the understanding that nature holds many of the answers we are looking for; we simply need to look beyond the idea of our own sovereignty. Nature is surely the greatest artist of all. Through painting, I continue exploration by surrendering myself to the abstract. Anything I create is an intention to discover more of what life really is. It’s an intention of being more at peace.

Collections

2026

Belonging
This collection of paintings is about belonging – or not belonging. It comes from an endless search for oneself and for a place in the world. There is a hidden pain and an extreme loneliness in that realization, that belonging is not a given. Maybe even fear. Why are we so afraid to be alone? Or maybe the desire to belong is less about the fear of being alone and more about the fear of being nothing.

In a lot of ways, the mountains in my paintings are a representation of groundedness. Strongly grounded and firmly belonging somewhere. I have a deep admiration of that quality and reality of a mountain, that I myself might never fully acquire. Being like a mountain and guided by ancient voices. The text used in my paintings, is Tamazight, which is one of the oldest languages in the world but also a dying language. The script is called Tifinagh. It is the language of the indigenous people of North Africa, the Imazighen. I cling to my heritage in hopes of it being where I belong.

I long to belong somewhere. There is pain in realizing that you might not belong anywhere in this world. But there is also relief in the thought that belonging might exist elsewhere — in the roots of the mountain, in voices of your ancestors, or simply in the shared breath of the world.

2024

The Original Perspective
A lot of my inspiration in this period of my life comes from indigenous people and the way they live in harmony with nature. Art in these societies isn’t just about creating something beautiful; it is a transmission of wisdom. Here art isn’t just paint on a canvas, but in everything around us – they carry the creative process into everything they do. Here, art is not aesthetics in the conventional sense, but as aesthesis – a way of being, sensing, and relating to the world. Maybe what we need is a paradigm shift. A shift in the way we understand life and ourselves in it. And maybe that shift can be made simply by viewing life from the original perspective.

My debut collection of paintings, The Original Perspective, draws upon the wisdom of my ancestors, the purity of intuition, and the humility required to live in harmony with nature and ourselves. Through works like Sunset in Tamazgha, The Free Man is Alive, and Ro, I invite you to reconnect with the spiritual essence of life and the artistry inherent in the natural world.