I have always been very fascinated by the content of my dreams and have wanted to document them through various artistic endeavors. I used to have a recurring dream about my hair suddenly growing very long, very quickly. I created this piece out of the curiosity I was feeling about this dream. 

This piece started out in my sketchbook and evolved into a larger work. I made this image as essentially a stream of consciousness, hoping to capture some of the feelings of loneliness and desire for companionship that I was reaching for at the time. 

This piece is the first page of a short comic I wrote and illustrated called “Ashes.” The comic is a reflection on my relationship with queerness and existing in queer culture. By comparing and contrasting anecdotes from my life, it also discusses how that has become complicated in a pandemic. I made this comic from a SVA continuing education class with Sarah Shaw.

I took a continuing education class through SVA with Grant Shaffer, that had us illustrate a cover design for the book Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. I created this piece with no knowledge of what the actual cover looked like. I created this piece to try and describe the feeling of experiencing a “flow state,” which develops slowly with the sustained practice of any craft.

I created this piece in the winter of 2020. I was experiencing heightened nostalgia and longing for the past because it was the first holiday season within a pandemic. I was mourning the distance that had naturally formed between myself and many of my college friends due to not seeing each other for a long time and not having the capacity to message regularly. This piece was a way to get those feelings onto the page.