Creative Installation  Art Direction

A Boy & His Crayon is an exploration of shapes using oil pastels drawn on vintage newspaper, and spatially imagined in public spaces. The idea is rather straightforward: I believe it's necessary for me as a designer to return to the physical medium of drawing. As a kid, my dad would provide me a blue crayon and a lined notepad when he took me with him to attend weekly sermons at the mosque, just to keep me busy drawing (so I wouldn't be a nuisance running around the mosque and disturbing other patrons).

Little did he know, whatever parenting method he used on me, shaped who I am today. This work serves as a reminder of the day I received that blue crayon for the first time.