I love to create art because it’s been a creature comfort since childhood, & it feels like catching up with an old friend whenever I create.
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I adore creating art inspired by cybersigilism, brutalist architecture and the relationship between human and machine. So the majority of my art explores themes of reconstruction and dismantling the human experience and I am currently practicing how to tattoo on fake skin to translate my art to skin and even clothing! All in all the type of art I do can be described as an exploration of transformation, in all its beauty and all its ugly.
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration in anything and everything, even in the mundane and the uncomfortable. But I would say my biggest inspiration is musical artists such as Arca, SOPHIE, Death Grips and so many more! I just think artistic inspiration can be found anywhere in the world, one just has to keep an open mind and have an insatiable curiosity.
What would you do with $25,000?I would use the $25,000 to help alleviate some of my debt, but primarily I would use it to help fund me going to Columbia College in Chicago to pursue my Bachelors in Visual Arts this upcoming Fall semester. And of course to further my artistic skill via being able to purchase quality supplies (especially for tattoo art!) and more niche lessons from independent artists that I look up to and respect.
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