For isolation pieces, I tend to make a vast landscape that seemingly has no other land around the subject other than what's in their immediate vicinity. I aim to capture this feeling of being “lost at sea” that shows the viewer that the piece is trying to portray a sense of being alone. For pieces that are focused on trauma, I go the route of making what in my mind is a representation of my own brain/headspace. Very compacted, almost claustrophobic scenes that feel crammed. I try to play with the balance of “inside vs outside” with my pieces (the landscapes vs the mind)

After my accident, I had a fundamental shift in who I was as a person. Something similar to an identity crisis. Without a sense of direction, but also someone who felt very creative and having trouble using words to describe my journey, I felt drawn to the idea of making visual art to represent my experience on earth. My artworks can communicate what words fail to, and I find myself feeling seen and heard through my art more than any other aspect of my life.

I feel like I had a very clear path ahead of me that felt unique, personal, raw, and real to me. Making art about this specific critical point in my life allows me to show the world what it's like to experience these things. I get messages from people who have been in a coma or know someone who has, and they will say things like they feel seen and represented by my work. There's this unspoken understanding of people who have experienced something like this, and finding community through art about very difficult times is something I hold close to me. On my own journey, I felt very alone while healing, so I hope my art offers something to anyone who is struggling with something similar.

Blender gives me avenues to explore myself in a very fluid way. I wouldn't say I'm a master of blender, or even close to one, but I think Blender is adaptive to different workflows and produces a certain look and feel to my work that feels right to me. There are so many ways to use Blender that I find myself having all the tools I need to make something meaningful to me. I think Blender gives me a lot of metaphorical space within each piece in a way that feels comfortable to me.

There's a part of me that wants anyone viewing my work to feel known, seen, heard, and less alone. I don't need people to understand the specifics of my journey, and hope that everyone has a different, but similar feeling when they see my work. I'm aware that my art is not for everyone, but the ones that do appreciate my work have said some very nice things to me about how my art has given them space to heal their own wounds. Even the smallest difference my art can make on someone's life is a massive win for me. It's difficult to articulate, but knowing that something I created has changed the trajectory of someone else's life, is a feeling that never goes unappreciated.

My process is very instinctual and focused on finding my flow state. Most of the time, I have no idea what the finished version of the piece is going to look like, I experiment a lot with different ideas and see if anything sticks. Usually, I start a piece when I'm trying to process my emotions, or work through a problem I have with my life. I am constantly making changes towards the piece and sort of just let the decisions make themself and try to not predetermine what sticks and what doesn't. Often I will lose track of time or enter a sort of trance and when I come out of that state, the piece is finished.

If I had to pick one piece out of the collection to highlight the key elements, I would choose “Another Vision (one that makes me forget I wish I was another person.)” This piece has all of the core elements I was going for in the collection and it represents the epiphany-like element to a journey of self growth. It has this somber vibe to it that I would say accurately describes this sense of dissociation and overwhelming nature to the process of reconstructing your own identity.

I wouldn't say I put a ton of effort into making my art relatable. I would say I am very lucky to have that sense of connection through my art, though. I do intentionally leave out the “meaning” of the piece, so that viewers of the artwork aren't really guided to a specific definition or meaning. I love when people find their own meaning in my work and draw parallels to their own lives. My art is made about very intimate and personal moments in my life, but I have found that a lot of people resonate with it on levels I don't quite understand yet. I think that mystery is really interesting to me.

I think each collection aims to portray a certain era, or period of my life. As I am an ever-changing human whose desires, goals, and mindsets change with me, I think it's important for me to capture those changes through various collections. This collection offers new information about myself that previous collections did not have. As my life progresses, I encounter new people, experiences, and ideas that help shape future works that can only be made possible through those experiences because they are attempting to portray how all those factors come together in an artwork to represent something meaningful of that time in my life.

Constantly spending time to develop new techniques that will open up doors for new skill sets and ideas to come to fruition. A long term goal of mine is to get into physical sculptures to have my characters come to life and exist in the real world on a large scale. A gallery full of tall and detailed sculptures is a dream of mine. Focusing on narrative and worldbuilding elements in the future, I love the idea of creating my own world/ecosystem of characters and landscapes that have this fantasy feel to them to offer people a path into how I see the world in a more complete sense.