Connect What is your favorite type of art to create?

My favorite? The kind that doesn’t ask permission. I lean into raw, expressive, almost confrontational pieces—faces that feel like they’re staring back at you a little too hard, colors that clash on purpose, lines that don’t behave. Somewhere between controlled chaos and emotional spill. I like when it looks a little unhinged, bc that’s usually when it’s honest. Abstract expressionism, neo-expressionist energy, anything where I can distort reality and still make it feel more real than reality.

Where do you find inspiration?

Everywhere—but not the pretty, curated everywhere people like to talk about. I find it in the cracks. Late nights when my thoughts won’t shut up. Half-finished conversations. The look on someone’s face when they’re trying not to feel something. Street noise, silence, tension in a room you can’t explain. It’s in my own mess too—memories I haven’t sorted out, emotions that don’t land clean. I’ll see a color that feels wrong in the best way, or a shape that looks like it’s fighting itself.

What would you do with $25,000?

$25,000? I wouldn’t treat it like a cushion—I’d treat it like fuel. I’d build a space that feels a little dangerous to walk into… somewhere I can work bigger, messier, louder. Floor-to-ceiling canvases, better materials, no more rationing paint like it’s precious. I’d invest in time—buy myself out of distractions so I can disappear into the work without worrying about survival.