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Layla Hussein

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posca markers 🖍️ 🖌️color experimentation🫧🫧 by @alkarvaa

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3 months ago

navigating Art-A-Whirl. rotate for more ➿ #artawhirl2026 @northrupkingbuilding by @alkarvaa

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4 months ago

“intruder”, oil on canvas, 2026 by @alkarvaa

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5 months ago

1st live model painting~~ by @alkarvaa

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5 months ago

cake paintings. wood panel vs burlap. so fun by @alkarvaa

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6 months ago

still life done overnight. my painting muscle is growing 🤞it’s weird to experience. i’m using the fat over lean rule and color theory n stuff and it’s allll very new and exciting and stressful. i have a lot of ideas i didn’t know how to express before and now i have more of an engine to utilize woohoooooo by @alkarvaa

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6 months ago

painting made in PR. connectedness blooming from the inside out, bright, vibrant, warm by @alkarvaa

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8 months ago

“texture board for longing spells”, jagua on paper by @alkarvaa

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8 months ago

Suspended Animation Final for Media Arts Tools and Techniques class :)

fairy dust is real by @alkarvaa

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a year ago

video of installation, “WHAT’S GOING ON?”

banner reads: “DISENGAGEMENT FROM POLITICS IS AN INVITATION FOR THE POWERFUL TO ENCROACH UPON YOUR LIVELIHOOD, CONSUME EVERY LAST DROP, UNTIL YOU’RE DOCILE, COMPLACENT, AND UNIDENTIFIABLE. DO YOU ACCEPT?”

Music: Serenade by Schubert, performed by Rousseau

Voiceover by Nour Eldin Hussein, excerpt from ‘They Thought They Were Free” by Milton Mayer

Thank you to everyone who helped make this project possible, and everyone supporting me💘💘💘it wouldn’t be possible without my people by @alkarvaa

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a year ago

“WHAT’S GOING ON?” Ideation and Process final, May 8th 2025, 10ftx25ft, mixed media and sound

i spent 6 short weeks trying to encapsulate every feeling, word, image, i see and hear everyday as an Egyptian-American just trying to live my insignificant life. it shouldn’t be normal to witness genocide on social media on a daily basis and to expect that i’d come out unscathed. seeing the suffering of my people eroded me, yet i held the expectation of normalcy for way too long, to the point that my nervous system got used to seeing obliterated corpses of brown children, mothers and fathers on my timeline.

this isn’t normal. i decided to use the opportunity to unleash the anguish, the anger, the sadness, the hopelessness, the forgotten opportunities, the frustration, to represent my people, artistically. i did not succeed. i discovered that what i created was a smithereen. i never felt smaller. what i would give to duplicate myself over and over and create hundreds, thousands of pieces. so this begins the journey.

i implore you all to create more than you consume. and do some-thing. action. action. action. more than ever, please. by @alkarvaa

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a year ago

My Ideation and Process Collection Final, “Trilogy”

covering the 3 main moods i experience day to day—depression/despair, happiness/fulfillment, boredom/existentialism by @alkarvaa

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a year ago