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Sharafina Teh Sharifuddin has been passionate about creating and expression all her life, whether it was through drawings, playing music on the piano, singing and writing personal anecdotes. She graduated from MMU back in 2014 with a degree in Animation and has since then worked as an animator on several animated projects, including Rimba Racer and the award winning animated short film, Kring! In her spare time, she does illustrations and short animations depicting her personal views of the world and things she is passionate about and collaborated with a US-based magazine, Natural Traveler Magazine through commissions of her artwork. She is currently teaching animation subjects to Diploma students in her alma mater.
A digital illustration depicting the artist’s experience during pilgrimage to Makkah. The feeling that she wanted to portray in the beginning was the overwhelming sensation from the thousands of visitors that had came from all over the world, and being forced to share the same space with everyone having the same purpose in mind: to reach out to God. Amongst these many people who pushed and clawed their way to the surface to see that light they were seeking, and in this suffocation that felt like drowning under water, there was strangely stillness and quiet in herself as her mind focused on what she wanted to say to the Almighty.