Exciting New Year!

"This year I am focusing on a fresh start. I have so many exciting projects and products I will be announcing in the up coming months, so I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself for those who might not be familiar with who I am and what I do. " - benMUSA
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Intro music "Lion" by Sapajou
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Lion by Sapajou https://soundcloud.com/sapajoubeats​
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Movie clip from - "The Cannonball Run" (1981)
--- Jamie Farr portrays a wealthy oil-rich Middle-Eastern sheikh.
Book Covers --- "Dune" by Frank Herbert and "DragonSong" by Anne McCaffrey.
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Video Transcript:
So … It’s been as one would say crazy this past year - I guess that would be an understatement. We all have dealt with loss. And with some the ultimate loss. Many will still feel that throughout this year. I hope the dispersion of the vaccines with a new administration will continue to quicken in pace.
I am so ready to leave 2020 behind. I am sure we all agree on that part.
This year I am focusing on a fresh start. I have so many exciting projects and products I will be announcing in the up coming months, so I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself for those who might not be familiar with who I am and what I do.  
Since high school, my life has centered around a creative outlet; writing, painting and design. Being from a Muslim / 1st generation Libyan background was difficult to balance in a West Houston Texas high school . Luckily, my imagination helped foster my voracious appetite for fantasy and science fiction literature. Essentially it kept me grounded. It was my mother who pushed me into Art. I found it to be an extension of what I was reading and quickly became my passion. And although I stopped for many years after high school, I never truly let it go even as progressed into a graphic design career. I still held on to the idea of painting and writing again.
This continued and finally evolved to The benMUSA Collection. It began with a friend who commissioned my first painting. I began exploring my Mediterranean and North African heritage. The collection is essentially an extension of my passion in writing, art and design. From the beginning I believed it would help explore my interests. To further enlighten me on my personal struggles, to discuss and explore the social and racial injustices that I often observe, and hopefully to find that common ground that we all relate as a humans.
I continue to expand my collection. For I see the collection as a metaphor to the universe itself. Every growing and evolving. This year will be the biggest endeavor. And I am excited to share this with you throughout the months ahead. Thank you for your time. Peace and Blessings.