Ossa Haddas

My headphones they saved my life...
Living in New York for more than 4 years, studying art and design, I used to walk its streets armored with my headphones, my music muting all surrounding sounds, creating an alternative reality within reality.
Controlling the city's senses- overload, I became a by-stander, an observer; my ears were used as filters for my eyes. In New York you need to define yourself repeatedly, constantly bombard with loads of visuals and sounds, encountering countless characters, enormity of data that pass through you. I felt like a flexible vessel, where everything around me was transforming me into a new adjusted shape.
Museums and galleries became my sanctuaries, art and making art became my religion- a place where I feel everything is calming down, as if getting inside myself, grasping an inner tranquility, escaping.
I am always in search for escape places, a behind the scene experience- to see but not to be seen. Making art creates these places for me. While creating, I'm absorbed in it, and everyday life and reality as shared by all, falls to the background.

My art is made of materials that I find around, "˜visual leftover'; sometimes, images which while flipping through magazines intrigue me -...

BFA in Communication Design, Parsons The New School for Design NYC