Artist statement

I often feel as though I am boiling over with emotion. My anxiety, depression, and neurodivergency combine into a hypersensitivity that both electrifies me and washes me out. Creating art is my single way to survive and the only way I can imagine thriving. It is how I process my own feelings whilst simultaneously connecting and communicating with others. My work focuses on themes like mental health, interpersonal relationships, and queer identity with an emphasis on gender. While I often jump between mediums, engaging in graphic design, video editing, painting, photography, fashion design, and more, most of all I combine my love for writing and illustration to create comics. I think the graphic novel has a unique power to impart what is too abstract to put into words yet too complicated to represent through picture alone. I am inspired by a history of artists that centered queer subjects while exploring themes of self-identity and emotion such as Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and Claude Cahun. In the present, I look to graphic memoirists like Alison Bechdel and Nagata Kabi who communicate their personal struggles both visually and narratively.