This is Hisham Al Qanaie. He is an exchange student from Kuwait who moved away from his family to go to college. The architecture program drew Hisham to OSU. Being a secret artist back home, Hisham needed a way to show how much talent he really has without causing trouble with neighbors.
Hisham lives alone in a one bedroom apartment filled with paint cans, architecture projects, paint canvases, artistic pieces, and things of the nature.
Hisham doesn't have a car, but he rides his skateboard as his way of transportation if he isn't walking.
Hisham likes to do graffiti in his free time; A hobby that got him in a lot of trouble back home. Having pissed off a lot of people, Hisham moved to the United States.
Hisham spends 90 percent of his time working in the architecture studio at OSU. Without a real father figure growing up, Hisham does many things for himself and has become a very self-reliant person.
Hisham is very good at what he does, and when his friends need help, he guides them in the right direction.
Most of the time however, Hisham prefers to work alone with his music. Music is an influential aspect of his life. It inspires his creativity.
The architecture studio is filled with students working for hours on end trying to finish their projects on time. Hisham has a cubicle next to one that nobody uses, so he makes use of the extra space.
His graffiti background only aids to help him as an architecture major seeing as how he must make sketches of his project, draft the project out for building, and build things after the plans are laid out.
His hands are steady and mind is sharp when he works on any and every part of his architecture projects.
Hisham almost always has his headphones in listening to music that inspires him to do a great job. As finals week approaches, Hisham is busier than ever, spending nearly all of his time in studio. He is a very precise person when it comes to artwork.
From making borders to making the smallest of lines, Hisham makes sure everything is perfect and done with a straight edge or with the correct tool.
When asked why Hisham chose to move to Oklahoma and specifically to OSU, he simply says because of the architecture program OSU offers, but I have a feeling there is something more.
Due to finals weeks approaching, I was unable to get Hisham to create a piece of graffiti for me personally, but all around him, Hisham has small pieces he created whether it be by paints, pens, markers, etc. He says he wishes he had more free time to create art, but being an architecture runs your life, and he doesn't really have any free time to show his artistic talents. At least not until the OSU graffiti contest rolls around.
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