Twenty-six-year-old painter Kindah Khalidy (@kindahkhalidy) has unscrambled the code of her creative process, and sheβs on a roll. βIβve developed a method of working where now that Iβve cracked it open, I feel as though I have infinite works to make,β she says. Sheβs hardly exaggerating: In the last year, Kindah has created 3,000 paintings, some of which were transferred into textile designs. Working out of a studio in San Franciscoβs Mission District, Kindah is fueled by creating color combinations between comical shapes. βEvery time I put a shape down, the next one is kind of responding to the one before it,β she says. βIt honestly feels like Iβm trying to solve a riddle when Iβm making these paintings. Itβs part analytical and part impulsive.β Her process can get a little disordered: βI think itβs important for women to make messy looking art, because often itβs only seen as a male thing to make not-so-neat-looking work. I try to make work thatβs a balance of perfect things and ugly things and funny things and everything in between.β