Aidha Badr is a painter from Brooklyn, New York living and working in Kuwait. She studied painting at Binghamton University in New York state and was formally trained as a portrait painter, but has recently begun exploring a more honest style of painting that she feels truly represents her inner life. A mixture of memories, time, place and life experiences serve as inspiration for her work
Where do you find inspiration?
My art is completely internally driven. My most animating drives come from my nostalgic tenderness towards the past and I use that to sentimentally create work that fixates on substantially existent and phantom recollections, the wade of the ever diverging chasm between our long-term memories recycled through the short-term memory and vice versa. The tremendous momentum in memory, influenced by time, place and experience courses through my most recent work. Some memories course through me more than myself, and some suffice for me where myself withers.
What is the main context of your work?
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