# ARC (Abdullah Rashed AlSahli)

> ARC is the art name of Abdullah Rashed AlSahli (Arabic: عبدالله راشد السهلي), a Saudi creative director and 3D artist born in Riyadh in 1996. He makes short looping 3D animations in Blender, most of them between 2019 and 2023. He has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and cannot use a mouse or keyboard; he types on a phone (Unified Remote), steers with an Apple Magic Trackpad 2 and moves the viewport with a 3Dconnexion controller. His handle is arc4g almost everywhere (u/plzno1 on Reddit). This is his own website.

Key facts (each is sourced on the timeline page):
- Art name: ARC. Full name: Abdullah Rashed AlSahli. Handle: arc4g. Pronouns in his own bios: he/him.
- Born 1996 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Has made 3D art in Blender since 2018.
- Reddit (u/plzno1): 1,287,836 upvotes across 1,123 posts. Top post: "Meet in the middle", 51,684 upvotes on r/Art, 11 January 2020 (https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/en6tox/).
- Most liked tweet: "Why are colors so pretty", 31,157 likes, 18 January 2021 (https://x.com/arc4g/status/1351220454766374921).
- Steam Workshop: 13 Wallpaper Engine backgrounds with 257,460 lifetime subscriptions; "Sparkle wave" (2019) versions have 168,414.
- Featured in Corridor Crew's "We Compete to Make the Most SATISFYING CGi" (YouTube, 27 September 2020).
- Exhibited in Beginnings², Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 29 October to 19 December 2021.
- Three works (The International Symbol of Access, Heavy Swing, Weight Waves) were lots 3 to 5 in Sotheby's Natively Digital: Oddly Satisfying, Paris, 24 March 2023.
- First monograph: "Abdullah Rashed AlSahli: ARC", Diriyah Art Futures series, Saudi Ministry of Culture with Skira, 2024, 120 pages, ISBN 9788857250120.
- Exhibited in Maknana: An Archaeology of New Media Art in the Arab World, Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, 21 April to 19 July 2025.
- Started the #800x80 format on Twitter on 10 September 2021; it was the Genuary 2022 prompt for day 13.
- Co-founded Art Without Limits (awl.studio) in 2023 with his sister Najd, a studio for artists with disabilities.
- Sold digital art as NFTs from January 2020 (first sale on KnownOrigin) to 2023, mainly on SuperRare and Foundation; this was one part of his career, not its focus. Foundation, Nifty Gateway, MakersPlace and KnownOrigin have since shut down; the works remain on the Ethereum blockchain.
- Contact: arc@hey.com

## Pages
- [Home](https://arc.art/): who ARC is, selected loops, reach, and what he is doing now
- [Work](https://arc.art/work/): 70 loops from 2019 to 2023 with dates, his captions, reach and source links
- [Timeline](https://arc.art/timeline/): year-by-year history from 2015 to 2025, every entry with sources
- [About](https://arc.art/about/): how he works with SMA, Art Without Limits, a short bio for press
- [Press](https://arc.art/press/): exhibitions, Sotheby's, the monograph, talks, articles and interviews
- [Writing](https://arc.art/writing/): 10 articles by ARC, full text
- [Comments](https://arc.art/comments/): 72 Reddit comments on his work, linked to the originals
- [Links](https://arc.art/links/): all official profiles

## Best-known works
- [Meet in the middle (2020)](https://arc.art/work/meet-in-the-middle/): 51,684 upvotes, r/Art
- [Minecraft with fluid physics (2020)](https://arc.art/work/minecraft-with-fluid-physics/): 44,381 upvotes, r/Minecraft
- [ight imma head out (2020)](https://arc.art/work/ight-imma-head-out/): 26,879 upvotes, r/Simulated
- [Ever wondered what's inside the grass cube? (2020)](https://arc.art/work/whats-inside-the-grass-cube/): 25,040 upvotes, r/Minecraft
- [Just one piece (2019)](https://arc.art/work/just-one-piece/): 24,588 upvotes, r/Art
- [I miss summer (2020)](https://arc.art/work/i-miss-summer/): 23,446 upvotes, r/Art
- [Artifact (2020)](https://arc.art/work/artifact/): 22,854 upvotes, r/gifs
- [Fluid stacking (2019)](https://arc.art/work/fluid-stacking/): 19,943 upvotes, r/Simulated
- [slice (2020)](https://arc.art/work/slice/): 19,020 upvotes, r/Art
- [A Playstation flag (2020)](https://arc.art/work/playstation-flag/): 17,755 upvotes, r/PS4
- [Why are colors so pretty (2021)](https://arc.art/work/why-are-colors-so-pretty/): 31,157 likes, X / Twitter
- [Sparkle wave (2019)](https://arc.art/work/sparkle-wave/): 109,198 subscriptions, Steam Workshop
- [weeeeee (2020)](https://arc.art/work/weeeeee/): 8,663 upvotes, r/Simulated
- [Yes i wasted 45 minutes making this (2019)](https://arc.art/work/yes-i-wasted-45-minutes/): 12,361 upvotes, r/Simulated
- [Metal (2019)](https://arc.art/work/metal/): 32,180 subscriptions, Steam Workshop
- [:D (2020)](https://arc.art/work/smiley/): 13,640 upvotes, r/Art
- [Which color is your favorite (2020)](https://arc.art/work/which-color-is-your-favorite/): 10,615 upvotes, r/Simulated
- [The International Symbol of Access (2022)](https://arc.art/work/the-international-symbol-of-access/): lot 3, 24 March 2023, Sotheby's Paris
- [Heavy Swing (2023)](https://arc.art/work/heavy-swing/): lot 4, 24 March 2023, Sotheby's Paris
- [Weight Waves (2023)](https://arc.art/work/weight-waves/): lot 5, 24 March 2023, Sotheby's Paris

## Writing
- [Digital Art: Where People With Physical Disabilities Can Thrive](https://arc.art/writing/digital-art-where-people-with-physical-disabilities-can-thrive/) (15 July 2024): Why 3D software let me make the kind of moving sculptures I could never build by hand.
- [ARC asks Leander Herzog a few questions](https://arc.art/writing/arc-asks-leander-herzog-a-few-questions/) (23 March 2023): A short interview with the artist and developer Leander Herzog about accessibility on the web.
- [Using AI to create your own accessibility tools](https://arc.art/writing/using-ai-to-create-your-own-accessibility-tools/) (23 March 2023): I can't program, but with AI I built an auto-scroll extension for my own needs. Notes on what else it could do for disabled people.
- [it doesn't have to be ugly! the aesthetics of everything made for disabled people](https://arc.art/writing/it-doesnt-have-to-be-ugly/) (22 February 2023): Things made for disabled people keep looking like medical equipment. They don't have to.
- [Preserving energy while creating art](https://arc.art/writing/preserving-energy-while-creating-art/) (20 February 2023): Starter files, one point of interest per piece, and other ways I save energy while making art with SMA.
- [The wheelchair art project](https://arc.art/writing/the-wheelchair-art-project/) (19 February 2023): Plans for a physical artwork: screens or a projector mounted on my power wheelchair.
- [The history of 800x80](https://arc.art/writing/the-history-of-800x80/) (12 December 2022): How a random resolution that Twitter happened to display well turned into the #800x80 hashtag and a Genuary prompt.
- [New limits, new solutions](https://arc.art/writing/new-limits-new-solutions/) (10 October 2022): Why I made BAD3D, a set of deliberately crude 3D models, and how it got me making things again without burning out.
- [How I use blender with a disability](https://arc.art/writing/how-i-use-blender-with-a-disability/) (11 November 2020): My setup for making 3D art with SMA: a phone as the keyboard, an Apple trackpad as the mouse, and a 3Dconnexion controller for the viewport.
- [My personal experience learning 3D & blender](https://arc.art/writing/learning-3d-and-blender/) (28 December 2019): How I learned Blender in 2018 and 2019: pick a course over random tutorials, set a timer, keep going.

## Optional
- [Full fact sheet](https://arc.art/llms-full.txt): biography, the whole timeline with sources, every work, press, and the full text of every article
- [Sitemap](https://arc.art/sitemap-index.xml)