"This photograph shows my brother Abdulla and I, visiting my father's farm in Abu Dhabi. Also, in the background is my brother Ahmed watching the camels. We used to visit the farm each week and join my father's friends gatherings and social conversations. My father finds joy in farming and nature and away from the city life. He is a retired policeman and lives in Khorfakkan, where nature is all around. I did live in the city for a little time, but then I moved to Al Bahia city which an area that has farms and very close to our recent farm." 

"When I was five years old in the fine art class at school we had homework to finish a drawing and that time I didn’t know how to draw so I let my bigger sister to do it for me. Later then my art teacher chose my drawing for an art competition and from this moment I started to teach myself until I decided to take my BFA in College of Fine Arts and Design at UOS. In my last year in college, my art was taking the path of conceptual contemporary art within the inspiration from my personal experiences with my family. For example, I always feel like I might lose things in my life’s journey, so I create metaphorical elements to save and remember these moments in my life – this makes it easy for me to understand. I became an artist to make express ideas through various artworks with a great sense of pride. It is an attempt to engage in culture through a dialogue of hand made things that share emotions and thought about the place I am from. The artwork is a new birth of an idea and celebrates the moment that exists, which I value sharing with the viewer."

"I was born in 1988 in Dubai but the first few years of my life I grew up in the US. I actually learned English first and Arabic at a later stage. Although it was such a long time ago my earliest memories were baking chocolate chip cookies with my neighbors and my first Halloween I was a lion. I had childhood friends there that I miss so badly and loss contact with, and I wish I could find and connect with them now. I used to also sneak into my father's room and grab his photography and art books and my parents would find them hidden underneath his desk!"