During my years working across motion, branding, and UI/UX design, I learned how storytelling and design systems shape the way we see and move through reality. Working alongside technology was an important part of becoming who I am today, but over time, I became deeply interested in how symbols and rituals shape how we relate to the more-than-human world. Inside an industry that never seemed to stop accelerating, I began longing for ways of making that were more in tune with the cycles of nature.
Shrine grew from that turn. Around that time, I met my partner, Waleed, and together we began asking how we might build a life more aligned with our values while continuing to make a living as artists and craftspeople. Eventually, I left my full-time role and stepped into a more uncertain path.
Over the last decade, I began building practices that moved much more slowly: tattooing, printmaking, ritual art, Eastern astrology, natural dyeing, and working with earth pigments. It took years before I understood that these paths were not separate from one another. They were all ways of building symbolic systems for attention, care, and belonging.
I’m building Shrine as a place to slow down and return to what matters. In a world shaped by constant stimulation and the fear of falling behind, Shrine is my attempt to practice another rhythm.
If you have found your way here, I hope this space offers a moment to pause and reconnect with what feels alive.
