Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award

Left to right: Walid Al Wawi, Ragini Nagu, me, Bassim Eskander, Omar

Alright... So I briefly spoke about the Young Artist Award the last time I was on here. And that was a few months back.
It's been so crazy ever since then. And here's why:

I scrapped my initial video idea for the competition. I redid it, and then scrapped that one too.

I remade my fine art piece, it took about 31 hours over the weekend right before the submission. The submission deadline got extended, and so I got to work on my video piece. With only 2 days to work on the new video, I reshot it with one of my bestfriends, Lex.

I submitted a diptych from my Photo basics course, just to give a shot at both the Fine Arts and the Photography categories. And then I edited my new video an hour before the deadline, so that I could up my chances for the third category, Multimedia.

Within a week, I heard back that my photography and video got shortlisted. And in a month, I took the award for second place in Multimedia.

This was the video:

I'm really honestly shocked and surprised about it. I really still am. It's been so different ever since I won, and I really never would have expected it. 

I got to meet really amazing artists at the show, and I think that may have been the best part about the competition.

With my diptych. The lovely Mira is my model.

Award night.

With the amazing Naima.

I really couldn't have done this without all the encouragement I got from my friends and professors. I will seriously forever be in emotional debt to them, or something like that at least.

Anyways,

-Deena