Art Projects!

This whole website is my biggest side project yet! It's not something I'm known to do. I had a coding background before I suddenly decided to learn html for this. I'm learning it as I work on this, and I found this to be the easiest and most engaging way to learn. (I'm trying to learn guitar the same way)

On the 9th of February 2026, I was in PE class when the basketball blew up immediately after I shot my first shot. Everyone looked at me like they were half blaming me for it, even though the basketball looked clearly damaged earlier. It had like a bump in it.

Anyways, I took the basketball, held it from where it was ripped apart, and pulled it to make the opening wider for it to fit my head and just put it on my head. After class, I took the ruined ball with me home. The next day I cut it even more, and used staples to hold the front fold in place, and then I added denim padding from the inside so the rubber wouldn't rub against my scalp.

the Zahi background is actually an original work done by me

Around June 2025, my mom came back from Syria with a bunch of peppermint drops called Zahi. At first, I hated them. They smelled and tasted like VapoRub. But sometime during that summer, she gave me a whole box and told me to have one every day—just to make sure my breath stayed fresh. So I did. Not because I liked them, just… because I had to. And then, slowly, I started liking them. But even before that, there was something I liked more than the taste. The packaging. The wrappers, specifically. There was something about them—the texture, the way they folded—that made them feel too nice to throw away. So around September 2025, I just… stopped throwing them away. I didn’t really know why. I just kept collecting them. Until October 30th, 2025. That’s when I started arranging them—connecting each one to the next, like a puzzle. Matching edges, building something bigger out of something small. All in one day. By the end of it, it turned into a full wall of Zahi wrappers, all taped together. (this is it) That picture is the actual wall. And it became the background: Zahi.png.