If I had to sum up the thing that inspires me artistically, it would be the invisible. I’m obsessed with the concept of entire worlds and social systems existing right under our noses that have to be sought out in order to be understood. I like making comics involving bacteria and viruses and how their interactions can be humanized. Or how crows, seen as an annoying pest by many, can have their own complex family lives and hierarchies that mirror that of human society more closely than they differ from it. Even in the human world, the concept of invisibility is everywhere- even if you think you know a person and their struggles, even if you’ve known them all your life, you can never truly know what’s going on inside their head. “Invisible” is such a malleable and durable term, and I want to explore all aspects of it in my work. I want to show that just because most people don’t see something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. 

When making my art, I always attempt to bring to light something that seems hidden. Similar to my fascination with invisibility, I also enjoy highlighting things one wouldn’t normally exaggerate in my pieces. I like adding extra wrinkles, hairs, and muscle lines to my figure renderings to stylize and bring out more personality while at the same time maintaining proportional correctness. I pull from other media’s techniques to make my pieces more original; I make my shading into lines that flow with the form, like in a medieval woodcut. Even things like my assigned still life work for school, I always try to bring this sense of highlighting the subterranean and unusual in everyday items.

Since my interests apply themselves most easily to illustration and comic art, this is the genre I use the most- but i enjoy experimenting with a large variety and seeing what I can take from each one. Everything from pen and ink to 2D digital to watercolor and even a live site installation on poster paper is present in my body of work.