ABOUT ME

       I was born and raised within the rocky mountains of Colorado. That said I never really lived anywhere that wasn’t surrounded by mountains. I came from a lower middle class home, and a large family. However I would be a first generation student when I started attending Colorado Mesa University (CMU). That being said when I told my family that I was going to study art I got moved back to the kids table. Jokes aside, I was always interested in science from a young age, I still am to this day, but now I am looking at it from a different lens than that of science. They say art was originally meant to emulate, or mimic the natural world. But now I like to think that Art has moved on from the natural world. Yes we all enjoy a nice still life, or even nice calm slices of life delivered through nice timely narratives. But I feel like its time for the weird, fun, abstract, whimsical Art to come out and be appreciated the way it was always meant to be.

      When I look back at the artistic movements of the past I would say the absurdist, and the arts and crafts movement have stuck with me the most. Something about deconstructing the elitist side of the art world, as well as making being a creative mind accessible to all inspired me. There’s my philosophical ramblings that was required by my minor in Philosphy.

Now onto more of who I am and what I do.

      I am, a ‘Creative with Many Hats’. Some may call it finding new hyper fixations, but I have always been a learner. I always liked to pick up a new medium and create with it. Even throughout my time in university even though I started in theatre arts, I branched out into graphic design as well. Both are art forms that I enjoy, and give me fulfillment as a creative.

       I have already made quite a portfolio for myself as you can see on my other pages. I have work both in theatrical design, and graphic design that has turned heads. I have also been working in both fields all during my time at CMU. During which I worked as a Stitcher for the Moss performing art center, a Letterpress technician at Desert Dog Press, and Productions lab assistant at 371 Print. I have also served a costuming apprenticeship at the SilCo Theatre (formerly Lake Dilion Theatre).

       My work and my art have all been influenced by a lot of the world around me. Through the good and the bad I’ve always channeled that into my art. This is why I have grown fond of natural transmutters within the scientific world. For instance the sunflower is a polymorph meaning it serves multiple different purposes. The sunflower is not only aesthetically pleasing, but it can also provide food in many ways from the seeds to the flower itself, it is medicinal with anti-inflammatory properties, and it can clean the soil from impurities such as heavy metals and radiation. So not only is it pretty, but its a natural world power house. It shares a similar property with the smokey quartz. Though like every other Quartz crystal it is just Silicon Dioxide, but it gets its dark smoke-like achromatic appearance from being burnt by deposits of uranium. It takes the harsh radiation and turns it into a safe beautiful onyx luster within itself.

       Both the Sunflower and the smokey quartz take the good and the bad from the world around them, and they use it to become something beautiful. A property I admire, and seek to emulate in making my art.