An Emirati's fascinating ideas depicted in art

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Emirati petroleum engineer and artist Azeizah Ahmed Alhassani shares her fascinating art journey  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #UAE #art #UAENationalDay2020

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00:00My journey in oil and gas since 2017 and my journey in art it was since when I was seven

00:07years old and that actually motivated me more to to go to dive deeper in the ocean of art and

00:17and conduct my exhibition like you know as a young as a young teenager I was like

00:24very active and I would like to show people my art and my passion in art so I started to mix

00:32random material in my art and and and that pushed me more to to collect some random stuff

00:43like recycling and like this so I in the school they told me about the Sheikh Latifa for

00:54young artists and like the competitions for Sheikh Latifa, Bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

01:02so I took a step I said okay I will show my art and I will see what will happen so I showed them

01:07the the recycling painting for a woman that she carry dates and like this which was made from

01:17the magazine papers so after like one month they already announced about the winners in the in the

01:25in this competition it was my name was in the second place around UAE and that made my day

01:30actually and it was like a push for me to keep my rhythm high in the world of art and like

01:40and share my passion like this so after like the high school and like this I moved to the

01:45university and from the university basically it was a different story I started as a

01:55a freshly graduated student from a school who want to focus on oil and gas and be a petroleum

02:02engineer in the future so here where we where the arts met with the engineering thing in the

02:08university in the petroleum institute which is now it's called Khalifa University

02:15so basically I got support from the management and which was under ADNOC

02:21what which was under ADNOC and they motivated me more to show my art in small exhibitions

02:27so I conducted small exhibitions on my size you know so I shared my art with the girls and I sold

02:34my first painting in this exhibition as you see behind me this is one of my favorite logos for

02:40sure until now because it shows my identity that came from the history of UAE I'm really proud to

02:48show my our history in UAE and even people who came from all around the world in this exhibition

02:56in the World Art Dubai which was actually one of the exhibitions that I shine at it you know

03:10because my art attracted different people that came from different cultures but they see

03:18themselves in our my paintings even it tells my history so it took them back to their histories

03:24also my my paintings it's called Bast from Gold it's it tells the golden past the history of

03:32UAE the history of different cultures but it shows in the interior design which shows the palm

03:39the palm tree with the the jar and like the curtain like that that that make you up like

03:47you open it and you you travel and you see the window to the past our golden past basically

03:54I started in rowing with my sister my sister she's my first supporter in the rowing because

04:01she actually started before me and which was in Abu Dhabi Sailing Club we were two girls there

04:08there were two girls in the the female team we started as the first two females in Abu Dhabi

04:16a model rowing team actually you know it's a if you are dreaming big you can reach your dream

04:23dream back as as much as you can even it's a if it's a if it's not exist here you can do it

04:31you can do it you can reach it

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