Islam Atef Aly
Writer and Designer in Egypt
“Be Glorious.” This is the guiding I have followed since my childhood—and it seems the precept has served my well. Since graduating from high School - raised like researcher and artist have explored various mediums with eager, open eyes. As a result, my researches which focus on God secrets and metaphysics, my artwork—which ranges from paintings to animation and my writings which vary from writing paid articles and personal ones and also writing books, personal books and also books that i write for people and get paid. —has attracted the attention of many magazines like WeTheUniverse magazine and others.
Perhaps unintentionally, that lingering feelings has seeped into the content of my work, too, in the form of a mysterious, recurring character. “It’s an ambiguous figure the I hope others will mold and interpret as they wish. And while the medium of choice may vary piece by piece, my mission with each is radically simple so it’s important to me that my work evokes some type of emotion.
God has always been my inspiration, maybe learning what behind God was an important station to me not just to focus on this, but it made me more open minded and without borders as i found it a must to learn everything in this world, but only the glorious things.
I do believe in Glory and also in pain and both of them are related somehow. As i spend most my lifetime feeling the pain, it was an important feeling to change my life shape. I was having many persons in my mind because of pain, and many persons in my mind means that i got many hands to work more.
I believe that i should spend my time with only glorious people, people who are hurted, feeling the pain, slaughtred souls, because those people are the real humans, they are so pure inside however they may appear so dark and creapy to others or to the impure people. that's beacuse they become more mature than others, they understand life in the right way. and they saw that all people are just worms because they are immature, impure, not hurted, not feeling pain. And my artwork including those kind of feelings.
Art has always been on the side. I learned graphic design and started doing my own illustrations . Then things started to grow as I moved into the realm of animation and making products—but I haven't ever worked full-time on personal work. However many agencies in KSA and Dubai asked me to join them.
I always try to carve out time to do my own personal work. I’ll wake up earlie