A Micro Biography

I am a Baltimore based multimedia artist and maker. Most recently I’ve been primarily producing digital illustrations, but you can find work from the past decade here. Much of my work is influenced by or depicts people I love and/or am in community with. In that way, I view a lot of my work as being being autobiographical, even when I am not the subject.

As a child my dream job was to be a working artist. and my mother told me it would be hard to accomplish, but still fostered my interest in it. She’d take me to museums and mix in art into other subjects when ever she could while I was homeschooled. That effort culminated in me getting into an arts high school, which would lay my technical foundation for the work I make now. I was able to explore and develop my preferred mediums, which sparked a propensity toward painting and collage, as well as give me a few years of art history and design education.

After high school I went to college for a semester, dropped out due to poor financial planning, and went into the workforce. Within a year I was working at a makerspace, which allowed me to apply the core concepts I’d learned in school to more technology focused applications. I started drawing digitally more, and learned illustrator among that, which helped reconfigure the way I use shape and stylization in some of my other work. While I still make traditional art, I consider myself to be a maker more generally now as well, and have taken up laser cutting, digital graphic design, and basic woodworking and sewing.