Greetings! I’m Kaamil (Kah-mill) born just forty minutes out of Worcester, but with long visits/trips to both India and Pakistan. I think I’ve always wanted to be an artist, even as a kid, but it took me some time to loop back around and realize it. I’m no stranger to programming or math, and have coded for games and websites in a few different languages. I love capturing stories and emotions and infusing a medium with intent. I always like to say art is a conversation between the creator(s) and the medium. Sometimes letting the medium speak can create some amazing art.
I think interactive media is the perfect place to be to take technical skills and create art from it. I also dabble in classical guitar (I haven’t picked it up in a bit), write poetry with friends and make art of physical mediums.
I’m continually inspired by culture and human convergence on similar ideas all around the world. I’m a big fan of indie games that capture abstract and emotional concepts. On the other hand, there’s nothing like a local multiplayer game with friends. And chess – I’ve been playing that recently as well. Conversations around chess has led me to believe that games, even in the classic sense, are a form of art.
I took a bit of a digital art detox this summer and went into a more physical art phase. So I’ve collected a bunch of old clothes and cut them up to create art pieces.
This gallery below contains code-based urban landscapes.
The prints below are from a final project in a WebGL class on an interactive webpage, although it might be hard to interact with in its current form, it creates some pretty cool backgrounds.
This is a drawing I did recently to explore the concept of a conversation between a medium and the artist more. This one was created by spilling various liquids and tea leaves on paper and then deciphering it’s shapes, a little like finding shapes among the clouds. This one is really raw and loose.
Colorful – I like the use of color in the different portraits. I really like how you used cloth for the first pieces and how that cloth gives them more texture to the overall display.
Colorful: Not colorful just in the wide spectrum you used throughout your pieces, but also in an exciting and lively way. The different colors you picked are cohesive and the nighttime prints strike me because I feel like I’m looking slightly up at an angle(cool depth). I enjoyed looking closely at the different textures/patterns scattered throughout the colorful display.
thought provoking – You have some really cool art, and I like the abstract themes that echo in each piece. I really like the webgl pieces, I would honestly hang that in my apartment because I vibe with it! Really well done!
Inventive- Your choice of tea leaves and washing soap for your last piece is very unique. Imagine if on your last piece you included a drawing of a carrot as well. Wouldn’t that be cool dude?
Inventive: the variety of mediums used is evident of your artistic prowess and thought.
CLEVER: The art on display here is quite a lot to take in, and there’s a clear effort to make a more abstract design with meaningful implications. The shapes and shading make it especially obvious in the spills piece, managing to turn so many colors into a bizarre piece that can literally never be replicated. It’s a creative use of the medium, and I can appreciate that kind of “outside the box” thinking.
Inventive: I’m a big fan of the code-generated landscapes, both visually and conceptually. The variety of mediums shows that you have a passion for the creative process, extending beyond visual art.
Striking – those code-generated landscapes are BEAUTIFUL. I love the depth and color present in each of them
Inventive – I love your creative use of various mediums to make such unique pieces. The cloth art (the third one especially) caught my eye, and I think it’s really neat how you are able to create art with all these different methods.
Inventive – I always am fascinated by the use of AI with art and has become increasing popular and with good reason. I love how the building all are created differently and that it looks like it can be inhabitable.
Inventive – the use of different mediums and technology in your art is very inventive and unique, i especially love the sky scapes
Clever – I love how you merged technology and art in your cityscapes and the interactive web page pieces. There is something really captivating about the generated forms and it’s awesome. I also love how you made the drawing with the spilled liquids and tea leaves; the shapes and tones and the linework you derive from them make for a very interesting drawing.
Clever – the code generated urban landscapes seem like they would make really cool desktop wallpapers, and it’s really cool that they were generated by code. The last piece where you used liquids to start off the artwork is a really cool idea that I might have to try myself, I feel like it’d make for cool maps and such.
thought-provoking: I love your art of the nigh views. I always want to try pixel arts of sceneries and you just inspire me another way of doing so.
I may have to go with ‘striking’ because your work, and the context behind it, leaves me in awe!
Inventive- I really like your city landscapes! It reminds me of Philadelphia. The color and sharp restriction to perspective and grids is really cool to me.
Dark – I love the depictions of the night sky and the skylines. These are really great. I think you’d have a lot of fun as a background artist.