Today we’d like to introduce you to Musa Zaman.
Hi Musa, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
I’ve always been creative; from a very young age, I started designing the exteriors and interiors of many Buildings. But it was more complex than getting from point A to point B. I battled and fought throughout my life, being diagnosed with depression at a young age and being on Anti-depressants my whole life. Many factors held me back at the time from discovering myself. It wasn’t any more manageable later in my life when I reached the end of my teenage years, starting adulthood at the time I was going through Heartbreak. From that point on, numbness only remained; it wasn’t until one night I watched the moon I decided to paint the moon reflecting upon the water with black and white paint, describing how I felt. This painting changed my whole life after helping me discover my talents, apply my fearful determination, and discover my architectural skills later on, influencing whatever I touched from my Fashion Sense, Art, and architecture, curating all into my Vision.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Many people know me as a confident person or what I choose to present, but I am everything but what I show the public. I’d call myself a fighter because I never give up. Before and throughout the never-ending journey of discovering and learning about myself, which I continuously do and never look forward to not knowing more. Throughout my career, I use my mind I never shut off my mind; I let it explode with ideas, but with everything in this world, it possesses a flaw and a very damaging and harmful flaw because with an infinite amount of ideas comes overthinking and overthinking every single aspect of my life. I constantly force my mind off by tiring myself physically. When I started using social media to gain more awareness, it didn’t get any better. I was unsatisfied with the progress; I expected better. But with errors, I learned and improved each time, becoming stronger and growing new skin.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
The process of making art or designing isn’t to make it just to appease the public. It’s to spread a message to show raw emotion in the design. Emotion is what makes designs unique; I go deep in debt describing every emotion I feel from the beginning of my career to the present day. I underwent a rebirth. I was reborn, I feel, when I discovered my ability to create using my subconscious mind.
Early on, I created many black and white artworks “APATHY.“ There wasn’t color because my life was nothing but heartbreak and betrayal. The next phase of my artwork featured the color blue on “VIOLETWORLD” it reminded me of feeling something but not knowing what I was feeling, an abundance of unknown emotions. I started loving myself, which led to the creation of “PINK EYE” I expressed love but not in the way you expect, in the way that love for all reasons is dangerous.
I had many unsolved issues I never made peace with. I wanted to express purple as calming and nurturing to the eye. I expressed purple all throughout the collection known as “PSYCHEDELICS” I referenced many of my first artworks making peace with the stories behind many of my early paintings from Apathy. My art is ever-changing because I am an ever-changing individual. My art brings my emotion, my love for graffiti, my love for modern industrial architecture altogether.
The crisis has affected us all in different ways. How has it affected you and any important lessons or epiphanies you can share with us?
I learned a lot from this pandemic. I was a different person coming out of the pandemic; I was Muza, not Musa anymore. one of the many lessons I learned was ” when all is lost, that’s exactly when all has been found.”
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abstractartbymuza/
