Welcome! My name is Mariam Hasan, and I am a multi-disciplinary artist and engineer based in Virginia. The underlying theme of my work involves exploring the intersection between art, engineering, and design. Professionally, I am interested in human-centered design and data visualization as it pertains to applications in the biomedical field. This background is central in understanding my more creative works, as I explore the ways fashion and photography can be used as mediums of expression for the human body.
I refuse to be confined to one space, so my interests include painting, sculpture, graphic design, and music but my main mediums are through photography and fashion design. My painting helps inform my color palette and detail and I frequently visit art museums to get inspiration from the paintings. I do freelance graphic design occasionally and get to play around more with color palettes and font pairing. There is an art of placement in graphic design which helps me articulate how pieces go together and pair in fashion design. Sculpture brings this all into the third dimension which helps me better visualize 3D forms such as the human body. Curating playlists helps me create themes of energies and playing music has always been a stress reliever for me.
My love for photography naturally arose out of my love for exploring and documenting my personal experiences and the world around me. I cannot stay still and will spend most of my free time exploring new cities or finding new experiences in my own local community. Fashion design was something that crept up on me during the quarantine blues. I love clothes and have a closet that fills my whole bedroom, so once I started getting really interested in designer pieces, especially as a broke college student, I was like, “why don’t I just make it?” My background in engineering played a huge role in my ability to deconstruct clothing into patterns through just a picture and put them back together using a sewing machine. My pieces are more exploratory and expressive than functional. I love looking at ways different fabrics and forms can manipulate the shape of the human body. I also really love thrifting old pieces and looking for ways to give them a new life by manipulating their silhouettes. Your clothes are the way you can express yourself through the world without even opening your mouth, and that is a very powerful tool.
I have recently started exploring ways to combine photography and fashion by making cyanotype prints on fabric. I have also gotten really into editorial fashion photoshoots, and in my free time have mini photoshoots in my bedroom with my tripod. As I begin this focused period of work, I hope to explore more experimental avenues of fashion design while focusing more on the article’s construction, so I feel more comfortable wearing my own pieces. I also want to explore more multi-disciplinary mediums such as combining photography and fashion design. This could be through printing processes such as cyanotypes, but I really want to start photographing my pieces in editorial style shoots.
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