Art & Handcrafts

Last updated on Feb 21, 2025

I have always enjoyed doing handcrafts, especially the ones involving a little bit of engineering. Not sure if we should call them handcrafts in that case but here I refer to everything i have made myself handcrafts. The stuff I create generally falls into these categories:

Decorations
Engineering

Decorations

My sense of crafting something decorative is quite a recent one. Most of the stuff here have their own personality. Some are evil and some are good. Below you can see a couple of them.

Ronak

**A dime born from the hearts of the brightest stars, emerging from the vehement spirits of heavy forces, she gives meaning to the inevitable suffering of the infinite cosmos.**

Ronak is a girl’s name meaning luminous in Kurdish. Though it is made with CD disks and a kitchen board I found on the ground floor of our building, She is gorgeous.

Hiwa

**He holds the only beverage of fulfillment, a rare brew grinded from time and purpose..**

I had something totally different in mind when I first found the big clock but as soon as I came across that golden watch everything changed. luckily, the nivea hand cream container was exactly the size I needed.

Golgift

**Despite its spiraling patterns of beauty, its urge to seduce humans into its infinite malignant schemes has been long known in Tartarus.One shall become its slave once exposed to its aura.**

Gol means flower in Persian. I found the vase, the rest I did myself including the painting. That yellow string is actully one of the resistance bands I used for working out. I had no flower that day ( I usually don't have flowers available either) so I just used that beautiful elastic band. The two fruits hanging down are two empty perfume bottles. They were too good for the trashbin.

Trüska

**Its tiny sparkling body surrounded by little marvels, enlights the shadows in the darkness and unleashes a sip of its origin, the power of will.**

Trüska means “a little bit of light” in Kurdish. I already had the cup, I just decorated it with pieces of CDs and painted it afterward. The light comes from a small LED light inside the cup.

Engineering

The handcrafts in this category involve a little bit of engineering and science.

Magic Christmas Tree

The recipe for this magic tree:

A wooden box found on the streets
A chewing gum packet
A marker
Cotton swabs
Small neodymium magnets usually found on whiteboards at your workplace?
Wire LED
Two electric magnets (I found them inside old electric trimmers.)
The rest is obvious I guess

The Bike: the ever-going project

In my third year in high school, I made this handcrafted motorbike. I spent so much time on it that my uncle called it the ever-going project.

**First version, shortly before its completion. Those two hens were lucky to be memorable.**

The first one shortly before the first version, You can see the chassis is made of old window/door frames. The engine itself was from an old motorbike. The weight was too much for the back wheel, so I replaced it with a wheel of a wheelbarrow 😄

**Second version, long after it was out of use.**

The second version was quite stable, I have so many happy and sad memories with it.

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