Art has always been really important to me. I’ve never really been the best at expressing the thoughts in my head in spoken word, written on paper, or otherwise and most of my life one of my main methods of communicating with people is depicting it, which has always been the best way for me to communicate. Ultimately having this drive and passion to create with my hands and my brain has been everything to me, it’s a gift for me to be able to still have this drive and that keeps me going on in my art.

In terms of what inspires me to create, a lot of it is the media I consume as well as the friends around me, the people around me. I would not be the person I am today without the influences of my “nerdy” interests like a tabletop role-playing games, comics, card games, board games, and things like that. If my work’s not inspired by something like a tabletop role-playing game that I’m actively playing with my friends, the characters we create together and the stories we tell,

then it’s inspired by some form of fantasy or sci-fi or something like that. Beyond that a lot of my art touches on the small things that I’m passionate about whether that be nature, or creating with a new material, learning more about a new material, or picking up like an entirely new medium for the sake of trying something new and getting out of my comfort zone.

In terms of my process itself, I would say I’m very eclectic, I tend not to use any one medium or any one technique. The world is my oyster and I will do as I please with the materials I can get my hands on. Whether that be using materials quite literally older than sliced bread like the dip pen or using more recent materials that come with the advent of technology like the digital programs I have access to. I tend to throw whatever I can at the page and see what sticks.