450 squarefeet, four walls, one room, one space. I was suddenly alone. I was suddenly conscious about my surrounding. 450 squarefeet, four walls, one room, one space, 5620 miles away from home. I heard the sound of emptiness that I never knew existed. Time consciousness also struck. One second, one minute, one hour, one day, one week, one month… Home transforming from a locality of comfort, serenity and peace into one of awareness, security and asphyxiation. For me, like many others, it triggered much anxiety.

August 4th, 2020. Beirut, my home town got destroyed by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate making it one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history. The ironic and only proof of life of my family was through my black mirror.

450 squarefeet, four walls, one room, one space, 5620 miles away from home. Out of my control, obliged to stay home, I had to bring myself to sanity in order to survive what seemed to be a dream.

My computer suddenly became my virtual parallel universe and the only thing standing between my sanity and insanity.

New in a big city, confined in a small studio, I turned to watching basketball games as a form of distraction from the constant dreadful news I was receiving. It was quite intriguing to notice how the NBA, like the many industries of our world, have adapted to the situation and created their own bubble in order to keep on delivering to their viewers what is expected but only under different circumstances. That is why I got inspired, and I created my own bubble through designing in order to escape my current augmented consciousness, my controlless reality, reap benefits of the situation putting it to good use, bringing to life my newest imaginary world.

My imaginary world was born through the consciousness of my own body activated by my anxious reactions. My brain, my nerves, my guts, my cold veins, my kind heart and my thick skin. I turned these six components of my body into my six main worlds characters inspiring my process of design.