I love to express emotion in a nonverbal way. Allowing my feelings to come through medium and reach others in that way is sacred to me.
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I enjoy traditional artwork, I generally gravitate towards graphite drawings that later have the chance to become fully colored paintings or drawings colored with alcohol ink markers. I work with a lot of different mediums in that realm, including paints, pigments, foils, fabrics (if I’m modding clothing), wire, crystals, prisms and even bubbles. Using these mediums gives me a workable limitation and requires me to problem solve my mistakes rather than working with convenience.
Where do you find inspiration?I love whimsy, magic and esoteric themes and natural themes, but I also adore underground techno and rave scenes and lazer lights. If I could classify my aesthetic in one movie it would be the neon holiness of the DiCaprio Romeo+Juliet. The blend of a cyber world and an ancient, natural one is where I sit and play at. Liminal spaces can be anywhere, and there’s always cooler lighting in there anyways.
What would you do with $25,000?I will first enroll myself into tattoo school, as I feel my style and artwork is screaming for a new way to shine. I’d also begin creating some of the projects I have in the works that require substantial funding, including several apps for creatives and an oracle card deck. I’d also likely create a few graphic novels and use the money to hire some help with the parts of that process that I am unable to complete. I’d also start a line of fashion apparel and create some out of this world stuff.
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