UAE: This aerospace engineer-turned-kinetic artist’s artwork pays tribute to Sheikh Zayed

UAE: This aerospace engineer-turned-kinetic artist’s artwork pays tribute to Sheikh Zayed

Kinetic artist Sheik Hussain Yunnaz on using waves of the desert in his kinetic energy artworks as a way of paying homage to the late founding father of the nation

By Laraib Anwer Published: Thu 4 May 2023, 3:32 PM

An expat in the UAE since the last 12 years, Sheik Hussain Yunnaz, who originally hails from Kerala, India, moved to the country after completing his high school education in Saudi Arabia. An aerospace engineer by education, Hussain knew at his core that building things that appeal to the artistic eye was where his future lay, as the repetitive nature of aerospace engineering stopped suiting him. The garage of his home, surrounded by tools and apparatus, is where he’s at most comfort, and where some of his greatest masterpieces have taken birth.

Hussain started his YouTube channel, MakerMan, back in 2009 and has reached around 4 million views on his videos today. Exploring a niche market in the country, Hussain creates artistic pieces using kinetic energy. These pieces lay on a spectrum of their own, from a unique kinetic sand art machine that illustrates artworks with sand, to kinetic light chandeliers depicting different movements to the eye observing it, to kinetic wall art