About Me:

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I grew up a staunch introvert. As a more reserved, withdrawn individual, verbal communication proved to be difficult, especially when trying to express my emotions or ideas. Subsequently, when words failed (and they often did), I turned to creating art, and I found that I much preferred it. Through creating art, I aim to communicate the more tumultuous aspects of my inner psyche​, while aiming to reach others caught in a similar state of mind.

Currently, I am in the process of producing a body of work that tackles how I and the people around me adopt nihilistic tendencies as coping mechanisms. My junior year had a rocky beginning; constantly swamped with unrealistic expectations and bombarded with a wave of internal instability, I found that I had trouble adapting to the start of the school year, as did a lot of my peers. As a response to this, I started to ask myself if humans were just animals in clothes, which was essentially me questioning if anything I was doing had any meaning—a belief as dangerous as it is radical. When I discovered that some of my friends were going through the same thing, I set out to document their experiences, along with their descent (and recovery) in and out of this dangerous mindset. 

In the future, I plan to double major in art and another field, particularly journalism or a STEM subject. With STEM and journalism being especially relevant to the media and entertainment industry, I believe that the future of my work lies in this area, especially because it is tailored to the communication and spread of ideas. Because I make art precisely for this reason, I seek to enter this field, while continuing to explore and convey the uglier parts of the human condition in a more beautiful (yet still accurate) way.