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about the artist
I’m Alina Mohammod — the artist behind bigweteyes.
I’m a self-taught, multidisciplinary Pakistani-American based in Hartford, Connecticut, working primarily in oil and digital media. My work lives in the in-between: feminine divinity and quiet rage, softness and control, memory and myth.
I’ve been painting since I was a child. My process now is driven by story and psyche. Each piece is a confrontation with the parts of myself I don’t always understand, shaped into something beautiful, strange, or still. I paint to see myself more clearly. I paint to feel peace.
As a diaspora artist, my work carries themes of migration, cultural duality, and emotional inheritance. I believe art should do more than hang quietly. It should speak. Sometimes softly. Sometimes not.
Thanks for being here.
My work starts with a loose idea—sometimes lines of writing, sometimes a dream, sometimes just a feeling that keeps circling.
I pull references as I go: colors, textures, animals, images that feel charged. There’s usually a lot of chai involved.
I sketch and build the piece digitally to understand the shape of it, then move to canvas, where oil paint lets the work breathe, shift, and settle into what it wants to be.
