Face the Lyrics: Meet Breens!

Meet 24-year-old Bengali artist Sabrina ‘Breens’ Ahmed! Breens, who has a passion for adventure and an eye for style, creates portraits of iconic musicians using only their lyrics.

A great song can paint a picture with words and connect with our deepest emotions. It inspires us and encourage us in many ways. For Breens, she illustrates her favorite artists’ faces with only the lyrics from their songs making original art from the art of other artists.

I view it as creating. I enjoy typography and hip hop. I needed an outlet to express my interests – so I shaped a way to combine my long-standing passions.

Breens is kind, beautiful, and full of inspiration. Her great energy translates into her uplifting style.

She derives her inspiration from quotes like these that stress the importance of using positive actions to balance the difficulty in our lives:

Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.

– Imam Ali

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

– Plato

So far, Breens has created 8 of these special pieces and you may be lucky enough to snap up one of the designs as a matted print, original art, or if you love another artist, she will produce a custom portrait just for you. I can’t wait to get mine.

The ones she has already done are Jay-Z, Kanye West, Amy Winehouse, Lauren Hill, and Childish Gambino.

Her prices range from $40 for 11″ x 14″ matted prints up to $200+ for customized pieces with artist and song selection.

► TO INQUIRE/PURCHASE, Please contact me at WhatTheDoost@gmail.com and I will connect you.

Breens lives in Washington D.C. and you can follow her on Instagram @BiryaniBreens or Twitter @sabrinaahmed