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Dec 6, 2019
1 min

Art allows us to be inspired.

If science is for exploration and knowledge, and engineering for inventions and expansion, and design for communication, then art is for ...

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Ali Hammoud

Sep 25, 2019
1 min

Pursue & Persuasion

Art is art is art, it can only be what it is, you can't dismiss a piece of art as not art because there's no science nor mathematics behi...

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Ali Hammoud

May 20, 2019
1 min

Bluline Book '19

There's something magical about art books, the work appears more interesting and more finished in my opinion. But seeing the physical wor...

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Ali Hammoud

Mar 31, 2019
1 min

You can't invent.

Everything has been invented already. But you can elaborate on what was invented in your own style and medium. In painting one has to loo...

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Ali Hammoud

Mar 31, 2019
1 min

It's all math

Always I am asked how do you know when the painting is done? The answer to that is really simple I add and subtract shapes and colors man...

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"Once you sign your artwork it's no longer yours".

Ali Hammoud

Aug 30, 2018
1 min

"Once you sign your artwork it's no longer yours".

This artwork initially began in 2014, part of a series called living on the edge of uncertainty. Due to a tragedy that happened in my lif...

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