As the child of two visual artists, I've been expressing myself with art for about as long as I can remember. I'm particularly interested in the mediums of pen-and-ink illustration, digital art, and multimedia/collage.
I think a lot about land; specifically, how the 'natural' landscapes we encounter daily in the New World are drastically changed from their original shapes, having been colonized and modified to fit the needs and sensibilities of Europeans. This process sounds neutral, but in reality it was violent, involving mass extermination of native peoples, plants, and animals alike. That kind of violence leaves ghosts. I personally feel a tangible lack in these colonized landscapes, which is hard to express through words. In order to express that lack, I used images from a book found on the street (no joke!) on the subject of the US-Canada border, itself an artifice of colonization.
Sometimes you want to chew on a problem. Physically, with your teeth. A lot like this shark and whatever he just ate. I'm beginning to experiment more with physical multimedia and layering, and I had a brand new red tube of paint lying around, so a bloody mess seemed like the perfect subject.
I love to draw cats. This piece started as an excuse to draw another fun cat design, but quickly became an exploration of loneliness, and how it can be driven both by exclusion and the cyclic spiraling of self-isolation. This cat walks not with other cats but with ghosts, leaving his world foggy and gray.
I created this painting as fanart for the CW show Riverdale, portraying the inner conflict of one of the main characters, Betty. The composition, partly referenced from a still of a Season 2 scene, was designed to evoke dread and explore how she performs the "Dark" and "Light" aspects of her persona, one often being used as a cover for the other.
This art was inspired by the Warriors series of books, and particularly the character Hollyleaf, who enters a self-destructive spiral after learning family secrets. I wanted to use her image to portray that feeling of both wanting, and not wanting to know something - when you know what you will learn is repulsive, but you're drawn to it regardless.
This short comic strip uses modified dialogue from TV show The Umbrella Academy and characters from the podcast Mission to Zyxx. I had been reading a number of single-page comics with completely unframed panels, and I wanted to experiment with creating something under similar restrictions.
This comic strip also uses characters from Mission to Zyxx, with dialogue written by me. It's more of a sketch than a truly complete strip, but I wanted to practice creating comedy through visuals and communicating characters' action without any clarifying dialogue or narration.