I am an interdisciplinary artist - exploring, learning, and working with different materials, processes, and mediums. My work is driven by my ideas, feelings, and experiences and the materials/processes follow. I later branched out into music as a vocalist in hardcore bands, this grew into developing a solo project and learning Ableton.

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For the longest time, I was making hyper-detailed drawings to cope with trauma, it served as a meditative placeholder to take up time as I processed and dealt with emotional burdens that were too heavy to bear. Later,  I started making laser cut iridescent mobiles addressing intergenerational trauma and the patterns that persist in it if not addressed. The five fold rotational based patterning is inspired by Penrose tiling present in Islamic shrines, sacred geometry present in both science worldwide cultures and religions, universal fractals found throughout nature. The complexity of the pattern makes it difficult to discern the own pattern's beginnings and ends; this creates an overwhelming sense of seamless, boundless expanse of incomprehensible natural order, much like the fractals and persisting patterns so effortlessly ingrained in the natural world around us. To me, this is the substance of everything, and I think that this type of patterning permeates everything that makes up our lineages, personalities, behaviors, and thusly interpersonal and cultural dynamics. The whole shapes of each sculpture is crystalline since crystals' microscopic building blocks form periodic definite patterns, even the cubes represent the shape that salt crystallizes in. This is also a reference to how patterns of behavior can "crystallize" into our personalities. I etch patterns on the surfaces of each crystal shape in order to illustrate these relationships between the patterns of natural order. The mobiles are a more playful expression that turns what we see as children into something new and transformed that reflects sunlight into rainbows in dancing patterns around their environments.

 

My hyper-detailed hair drawings are time-intensive processes that allow me to meditate on events and emotions as I work through them they also touch on fractals as the natural patterns investigated inherently portray these qualities when viewed at differing scales. I grew up in an environment where it was not safe for me to express myself, so making art became my outlet and my escape. Learning, curiosity, and expression help me cope with the heavier parts of existence, this has helped inform the interdisciplinary nature of my work. I enjoy investigating natural patterns and thinking about the relationships between order and chaos. Ideas of reality, the limits of human perception, and the investigation of concepts and techniques keep me interested. The expression of emotion and connection with people through the work keep me fulfilled, engaged, and invested.