Get to Know the Artist!

When I was kid, art was my escape to imagine a world I yearned to be in. During the early years of my life, I was often by myself, but what always kept me company were the TV shows, movies, and books I immersed myself in over the years. These stories I read and watched over and over made me feel like I was experiencing lands, hearing sounds, and meeting people I never could from my normal life. I wished to be a part of these worlds and even create my own, and soon I realized: what’s stopping me? I picked up my sixty-four multi-packed crayola set and some computer paper and fell in love with creating magical worlds and storytelling fun narratives.

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Near the final years of my adolescence, I started to wish that I was able to feel as happy with reality as I was in my imagination. With adulthood just around the corner, I did not know what exactly in reality inspired me. I began to let myself be grounded and started to notice what was actually around me, via past and present. I soon learned to make art that captured moments in my life from the ordinary to the meaningful with watercolor and pen. This process helped me see reality.

 

Once I started college, I kept going back and forth with choosing between imagination and reality as my drive to create. However, I realized throughout each artwork I was making, I was exploring both at the same time, and throughout each illustration, I was learning and seeing myself more clearly than I ever did. My body of work combines imagination and reality together to embrace the playfulness/curiosity of my own life and the world as a whole. I often use strong color, space, and form to illustrate curious settings or subjects, and I show interest in composition, atmosphere, and narratives.