My creative decisions have been most successful when I’m driven by concepts. When I work, I think about the general lay out and what I would like my work to look like. I mainly do pencil/color pencil drawings, I also combine that with photography to make my desired images and points of reference. Currently I’ve become interested in drawing hands alone, I like to think about how they are positioned and how they are being expressive. Since they aren’t attached to a person to give you more information you get the hand alone to express who the person is, what they are feeling and what they’ve done. My works has become very personal which is why hands have become a part of my interest as they are so anonymous that I can express my own thoughts without having to be direct, but I’m working on keeping the concepts broad enough so that people can relate to it or be able to understand it without needing much to be explained, so that I can give the viewer room to interpret.

My influence in art begins with my mother, although she didn’t teach me about it she began my interest by introducing it to me, if I think about it maybe art was the way I reconnected with her after the few years my brother and I grew up without her. She loves it but essentially stopped, even though she stopped it encourages me to pursuit even if I am doubtful. My influence in art also began with Anime I loved the different art styles of creators as well as the unique story telling combined with music that made me feel some pretty heavy emotions, I just loved the impact of it. Drawing some characters that I liked Influenced my focus on the smallest of details since I always tried to draw the characters exactly like what they looked like. Artist I find interesting now are artists like DaVinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Albrecht Duerer, Hieronymus Bosch, Rembrandt, Andre Masson, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama, and recently Chiharu Shiota. They have some similar subjects I’m interested in but a lot these artists a super different to the work that I focus on which I see at rather structured. What I like most about their work is that even if it may be structured to a degree, they let their art breathe, be playful and open, in the end, it takes its own form.

For now, the work that I do has really been to find myself within art and for me to begin connecting with my emotions, memories and inner thoughts. I may be filled with doubt about what my art is and looks like, but there is no doubt to me loving it and wanting to explore it. In a way I want to feel freed by the work that I make and let my art have its freedom as well, in a sense that I want it to be expressive and unexpected to what I originally intended.

  I make it so that I can connect with people in a way that I don’t need words. I’ve never been able to communicate with others too well or express openly my thoughts and emotions unless it was with art. I want people to feel that, so that they can feel a sense of relieve and that they don’t have to bottle up their own thoughts and emotions. So much happens in the world around us that is just so much bigger than the individual I feel we end up feeling rather small and placeless, which Is why I also do art to remind my self that others can feel the same and it’s important to express the thoughts within us so that others can too. I make art because it can be impactful. Despite what other people think its not “Just a drawing”, “just an image”, art is not “easy,” It takes work and initiative, its more than something “pretty.” Art has many forms and that is why it is beautiful, thus is why I do art because in the future I believe either conceptually or medium wise, it shall transform, and that’s something I look forward to.sdp