I was not supposed to be an artist.
I trained as an economist. I understood the world through data, systems, and logic. But underneath all of that, since I was a child, I was wired differently.
It would take me several minutes to choose which mug to use in the morning. Not because I was indecisive — because I was choosing based on feeling and things were not designed that way. It had to match how I was feeling, or how I wanted to feel. I was acutely sensitive to color, to shape, to texture, to the energy of every object around me. The things I lived with were not just things. They were part of how I experienced being alive.
For a long time I thought that was unusual. And I suppose it is. But the older I got I understood the objects we live with shape us.
Nothing is neutral, not your thoughts, words, actions and objects in your life.
Every single day, quietly and relentlessly, everything around us is working on us. Building a mood. Reinforcing a feeling. Becoming part of who we are.
This realization was further awakened within me when all of a sudden as a 20 something year old I become semi paralyzed for four and a half years. What had been a full, moving, achieving life became still. And in that stillness — in the most difficult season of my life — I found art. Not as therapy. As truth. My hands, even when they could barely move, found their way to color. And through color I found something I had always believed but had never been able to say so clearly:
We get to choose how we feel.
That is not a small thing. That is perhaps the most magnificent thing about being human. No matter where we are, what we are going through, what has been taken from us — we have the ability to choose our emotional state. Our feelings are our superpower. And like any muscle, the more we practice them, the stronger they become.
Life is a Miracle was born from that belief.
Every painting I make, every object I design, every collection I curate begins with a feeling. Not a trend. Not an aesthetic. A feeling I want to help you practice — to make more available to you, more present in your daily life, more real.
I am still sensitive to everything. I still notice how a color in a room changes the air. I still believe that nothing around you is neutral. But now I know that sensitivity is not a quirk. It is a gift. And it is the foundation of everything I make.
These objects are not decorations. They are tools. Daily reminders that the life you want to feel is already within your reach — and that you are powerful enough to choose it.
The art behind the objects has been featured in
Aida Murad is a Riyadh-based artist and author whose work has been shown globally and touched thousands of lives. Life is a Miracle is her most personal creation yet.
“I love life — and I love the work of shaping it intentionally. I made these objects because I believe the life you want to feel is already within reach. Sometimes all it takes is a daily reminder that it belongs to you.”