Dreamy Kuwait Collection: 25 Screen Art Pieces, The Place I Call Home
25 pieces for 6 KD. Signed certificate included.
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Twenty-five places in Kuwait. This one is a love letter.
I am Hawaiian. Kuwait is home. Both of those are true at the same time, and this collection is me saying so out loud.
Some of these you already know. Kuwait Towers, the Water Towers, Liberation Tower, Seif Palace, the Grand Mosque. Some you only know if you live here, or if someone who grew up here told you about them. Entertainment City in the nineties. The old Aqua Park next to the Towers.
My wife is Kuwaiti. She has been telling me about this place since we met. What Friday Market was like, what her family did, what she misses. A lot of this collection came out of listening to her.
Fits: Samsung Frame TV in Art Mode and any 4K TV (LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, Google TV, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku), Mac, Windows, iPad, Android tablets
Size: 3840 × 2160 (4K), PNG, 16:9
Delivery: instant download after checkout. No account. No subscription.
Price: 6 KD, about $20 USD
Licence: personal use. Put it on every screen you own, and send one to anyone who'd like it. Just don't sell them or pass them off as your own work
WHAT YOU GET
25 art pieces and a signed certificate.
- 25 art pieces, 3840 × 2160 (4K), PNG. All twenty-five are shown on this page
- A certificate of authenticity with my signature on it
Every piece is signed. Nothing is held back and nothing is upsold later.
PUTTING THEM UP
On a computer. Open the folder and pick a piece. On a Mac, System Settings → Wallpaper → Add Photo. On Windows, right click the piece and choose Set as desktop background.
On a phone or tablet. Get the piece onto your phone, save it to your photos, then open your photos app and set it as your wallpaper.
These are 16:9, the shape of most computer screens and TVs. On a screen with a different shape, it will crop or sit with a border.
ON YOUR TV
Your TV cannot see the folder on your computer. It can show your art in one of two ways, from a USB stick you plug in, or from a photo account your TV is already signed in to. Pick whichever suits you, you do not need both.
Way 1, a USB stick. Nothing to sign up for, and your files are not uploaded or shrunk.
- Copy the art onto a USB stick
- Plug the stick into your TV
- Open your TV's photo app and start a slideshow. Every brand names it differently, look for Photos, Media, Gallery or USB
On a Samsung Frame, press Power twice to reach Art mode, then My Collection → your USB device → pick the pieces → Save Selected.
Way 2, a photo account. Better if you want the art to appear on its own, with nothing plugged in.
- Use the account your TV already signs in to. Google TV or Android TV → Google Photos. Apple TV → Photos on your iPhone or Mac. Fire TV → Amazon Photos. Roku → the Backdrops app
- Upload the art there and put it in an album. An album is just a named group of photos, call it TV Art. If you are using Google Photos, choose Settings → Backup → Backup quality → Original quality first, or your files get shrunk and it cannot be undone
- Point your TV at that album. Google TV or Android TV: Settings → System → Ambient mode → Settings → Source → Google Photos → your album. Apple TV: Photos app on the Apple TV → Albums → your album → Set as Screen Saver. Fire TV: Settings → Display & Sounds → Screensaver → Current Screensaver → your album. Roku: Backdrops app → Add your photos → Upload photos → scan the code with your phone
- On Google TV, set Slideshow mode to Basic, turn Curate photos off, and turn off everything under On screen info
The full guide, with every step written out, is in your download.
WHY I MADE IT
I did not grow up here. I came, I stayed, and somewhere in there it stopped being the place I lived and became the place I am from.
So I made the landmarks, because they are worth making. But I also made Friday Market on a crowded morning, the fish market with the blue tile behind the counters, the souq with the light coming down the middle of the walkway. Those are the ones people actually live in.
Then there are the ones that are pure memory. Entertainment City the way it looked in the nineties. The Aqua Park that used to sit beside the Towers. Neither of them is standing now. I have been told about those places more than I have seen them, and painting something from someone else's memory is its own kind of listening.
Two of them are not places at all. They are what people did here. Pearl divers going over the side of a dhow with a nose clip and a basket, which is how this country ate before the oil. And a racing camel walked out past the majlis with the gahwa already poured.
Those two changed the collection for me. Everything else is a building, and a building does not tell you who lived in it.
The last piece in the set is the Gulf Road on a national day, flags out of every car window. That is the one that felt like the right place to stop.
THE STORY
Every collection comes with the story of where it came from. Read the story behind Dreamy Kuwait.
ALL OF IT
Everything So Far is all nine collections, this one included, in one download. 178 pieces for 20 KD instead of 44. See Everything So Far.
ʻOHANA
If you want to try the work first, join ʻOhana with your email and the Kuwaiti ʻOhana Art Pack is yours. Seven signed phone pieces, free, with the same care as the paid work. Join ʻOhana.
USING THEM
Every file is yours. Put it on every screen you own, and send one to anyone who'd like it. Just don't sell them or pass them off as your own work. Same terms whether you paid or I gave it to you.
A finished AI-assisted image can look like everyone else's. The artist's vision is always different.
An artist that is inspired and directs his AI Assistant. I work with AI to create my vision and I am the Hawaiian that brings the inspiration to the creation.
From Dreams On Kanvas with love… Aloha Nui Loa