“It’s a beautiful feeling when an idea starts to excite you and takes over your thinking for a long time, and you don’t rest until you make it. In fact, what motivates me to work in art is to share my thoughts, feelings, and experiences with people.
Seeing the amazement and happiness in their eyes is one of the most beautiful things for me. I care about the relationship between shapes or objects, as the energy that is produced through them creates the feelings that push me to create some shape that expresses them.
At the same time, I imagine my idea of a glass material while imagining the characteristics of the glass that distinguish it from other materials, such as transparency, reflection, and the ability to crystallize. In turn, it adds to the idea a lot of beautiful meanings, and sometimes the glass imposes itself strongly on the initial idea, which prompts me to continue to modify the idea.
My goal was to achieve the artistic idea in the simplest possible way. What attracts me most about glass is its resemblance to water, as in using water as a raw material for sculpting. Because of the transparency, I feel as if I am reshaping the space itself, and this is a completely different concept from forming in traditional opaque sculpting materials. When you work on a piece of glass during formation, beginning in its solid state, then with exposure to heat, the glass turns into a soft, malleable mass. I always try to use it to obtain a specific shape that expresses my idea in the simplest possible way. The difficulty of forming glass is that it requires a lot of experience, a good understanding of the material, and flexibility of thinking, in addition to the lack of tools compared to other materials.” –Sayed Waked
About the Artist
Born in May 1976, Graduated from Faculty of Specific Art Education, Cairo University. Member of the Syndicate of Plastic Arts. His upbringing in a rural environment played the greatest role in his artistic life, where he contemplated nature, formed visual stock, and had the possibility of dealing with and experimenting with various natural materials.
His sculptural glass works vary between pure abstraction and personalization in different shapes, transparent or opaque, and colored, with some silver and gold influences. He is keen that his artwork expresses a human message rather than just artistic relations. Likes to express collective human relations. He seeks the help of the artistic and aesthetic values of the glass material and its expressive meaning, which distinguishes it from other materials. The possessions of the Museum of Modern Art in Egypt, the Ministry of Culture, the British Embassy, and the Czech Embassy, in addition to many possessions of individuals inside and outside Egypt
