Hello everyone! I’m here with update on Maha’s current situation, and how the campaign is doing.

1. After much thoughtful consideration, she has decided that she’s not leaving Iraq asap since she only has a year left of college, this might provide a more stable future for her. She will try her best to bite the bullet a bit longer.

2. Even if she wanted to leave for Canada asap, she was told by a friend that her brother said, if she’s leaving the country he will kill her. Because killing her will be better than having the family and his personal life be filled with shame…….. An extremely suffocating and horrific situation. This all makes everything even more dangerous, difficult, and makes it so much more planning has to be involved for this to work out.

We sincerely appreciate all of your support

1. So, we have decided to wire all of the funds raised to her (~$2640 that has deposited into the bank as if 3/26/2025) so Maha can survive off of one job while she is finishing college. She is at a high risk for— everything, right now she’s working three jobs, in college full time and can only get 3-4 hours of sleep per night. Not to mention she’s still recovering from cancer, having multiple chronic conditions, and disability. She’s running on fumes, and this fund will make sure she can afford to sleep at night and continue to stay alive! However currently we are having extreme issues with international wiring so this might take a while to actually get to her (what the fuck Bank of America)

2. Maha requests to please make the donation number end in 5 or 0, haha, it is easier to calculate things this way, she’s very mentally ill and can’t comprehend numbers otherwise. (She requested me to say this sentence)

3. If you cannot afford to send any financial support but are able to help in other ways, please reach out to me via DM. Maha needs more than just funds and any amount of support is appreciated.

4. Please. If you are able to help Maha secure a work visa in Canada so that she may be able to leave Iraq without finishing college first, please reach out to me via DM. If we can help her secure a job, that would be of great support to my friend’s survival and future, with that sort of help she can theoretically get to Canada in a month.

She can work any white collar jobs, carpentry work, and anything that won’t be in a hot environment or asks her to do heavy lifting. She is an interior designer and proficient in Autocad, and is skilled in leadership, coordination, and problem solving. Over the years she has been teaching classmates and friends classroom concepts, making her a skilled educator. She’s fluent in Arabic and English, and can teach Arabic.

5. Lastly, love you all, stay safe 🫶 please, contribute however you can

I feel all kinds of weak squirming crawling wiggling everywhere and I have formed into a mollusk instead of a homo sapien my mortal shell has left me and my soul will embrace the morning rays as a dove

Im sorry I will reply to ppl soon!!!!! I just get a tiny bit nervous replying to to much kindness 😭😭😖 (bows and rolls down the hill like a high speed roly poly)

Coloring was way too fun

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^ feel free to scream with me

Okay I will begin my weep session now

Art to destress is peak, and now I will return to a horizontal position, lowest state of energy, particle at rest, amen 🙏 wow arted so good I m in an alternative state of mind

Too much art to art, and I JUST REMEMBERED I STARTED DRAWING TO AVOID ALL OF MY HOMEWORKS FOR THIS WEEK! amazing choice I shall suffer the consequences, later, .

Love u all

Ah, these are my first attempts at a pop-up room. I thought it would be cute to FINALLY put the ppl in my head (and I don’t mean OCs) into a physical space! Unfortunately my will to express and my skills to make it happen are not on a similar level! But it’s good to grasp the basics of pop up mechanisms first!

I still had so much fun making these! It’s meditative :’) unsure if I mentioned this before but while my depression is less potent I’m forcing myself to make as much art as possible to help build a sense of self and try to maintain a hobby!

The guy in the clouds! They are Wind, like, a personification of Wind…. I don’t know how to visually depict wind?!?! 😭 hm, if I’m going to redo this, (very likely) I might put them into another format that allows for more layers of clouds!!! If I could eventually figure out how to use movements in a pop-up card I would want to see clouds parting when I open a card with them in it! Sometimes they have like this long band over their eyes????

Hmm, for the little blue guy, hmm, there’s nothing they are reaching out at. THATS AN ISSUE! Originally they were aiming for the jellyfishes on the wall! But my glue really isn’t strong enough to handle the person being so close to the wall + it didn’t look like they are reaching at the jellyfishes either 😭 if I can acquire some strings I could have them be reaching out at those with little stars on them?!?

Comrades, please, don’t be like me and make an absolutely tiny pop up room AND want details if it’s your first time doing it. The battle I had with measurement. Cutting out objects. Drawing. Coloring. And most of all GLUING could have been avoided. maybe. Be a bit more patient!!! Plan things out! (Or just follow your creative spirit if that’s possible <:] )

geometry is hard! And fascinating!! What an unexpected way to come back to math. I love how much art and math are married with each other. :)

Also!! For people that couldn’t see the penguin on my last post! :D hopefully now you can envision a joyous penguin petting session… u wiggle the middle flap from side to penguin and the penguin will wiggle with it in the trajectory of an arc!! I can also send you a video in dms!

Be able to make art is a privilege, thank you everyone for letting me being here 🧎🙏

Hello hexbearians 🫶🏼🫶🏼 I’m Star/Goose. My friends have been encouraging me to share my artworks online, despite being very nervous I want to try a little bit!

These are what I’ve made in the past week 👉👈 A gift for a beautiful person :)

Pet the penguin! Can you see the video?

Drew my friend Maha as a chibi! I never draw chibis and I’m quite proud of myself! Stylizing is hard

*I’ve always loved the outer space— I drew Luo Tian Yi (a Chinese vocaloid) to this song I’ve loved for years and now I finally have the skills to bring that feeling to life! I hope I can sell prints of these :’) in the lyrics she calls out to Ground Control as she drifts out into the universe, seeking her gravity. This is a part of the song where she describes leaving the Mother Body once more, parting with the umbilical cord again as well, parting from a heart that has burnt out, and losing her gravity!”

Due to my self esteem issues, I often can’t see worth in my work, and refrain from sharing my artworks. But I want to try :)) Majority of my online presence have been trying to spread, write and message others for people’s MA asks. Unfortunately it felt all of the hours of hardwork rarely amassed to much help. I did learn so much and make amazing friends in the process!

I’m very shy about sharing any aspect of myself, posting online scares me, and art is so intimate to me and a piece of my soul. It carries my profound love for this world, and holds me when I’ve fallen into the abyss. Art making is the thickest cord that tethers me to this earth.

I want to thank Maha, the person who inspired this reaching out, for encouraging me always and her unfiltered joy seeing my works! She told me, hey, to help others you should lean into your strength. And I’m sad to see you trying to avoid such a big part of you in this process.

Since I yearn to keep supporting others however I can, I have to change my approach when it’s not working. I have just started to try to sell my art online and offline— this is very new to me! And maybe sharing my art can make others happier!

There’s so much things I want to make. I want to get into sculpting figurines for people in my head, crafting layered interactive sceneries with pop-up mechanics, learn to video edit and animate feelings I can’t express other wise, print shiny and adorable stickers and acrylic stands!! And more. I’ve always admired and loved people that had a passion of their own, and a drive for something, and maybe that’s what art is for me!

Thank you for listening :))!