About Me

Self discovery fascinates me, and daydreaming is severely underrated.

I often find myself lost in thought without a pre-established idea to lock my thought process onto, in order to keep my thoughts on a certain path, nor any real destination I want my thoughts to end up... They just kind of take off, and I'm there for the ride; where they take me on a "trip" of sorts... Music serves as the medium on which my thoughts flow. Instrumentals are usually the weapon of choice; Soundcloud is where I spend a lot of my time, discovering and listening to new music. Recently, my photography professor  brought to my attention that I should start bringing my music with me when I go out and shoot, since I listen to music during all my other creative processes, and just all the time in general. Since then, my photography has gotten more psychedelic... I think I like it.

My imagination has always been pretty ambitious: constantly stretching the limits of what I can fathom, and what I can manage to create. Photography on one hand, allows me to not have to generate the things in my head from scratch, but instead find them in reality and choreograph them according to how they look in my head. While illustration allows me to get very specific, and pick and choose almost every aspect of what I am trying to create, and make it come to be. 

Lately, photography has served as my creative outlet. I have been in a drawing funk, so drawing doesn't come quite as easy nowadays. It has turned into more of a task or a chore, rather than something I enjoy. And so, photography has been a major method to get the things that are in my head, out to the real world. I am also a writer also, so writing short stories and poems here and there have aided with getting my thoughts out as well. As an artist, and as a person in general, I can't do the same thing (or too similar a thing) for too long, or remain in the same place for an extended period of time. I have to keep growing and introducing myself to new things, new ways of thinking, new music, different environments, different surroundings, etc. I have been living in North Carolina all my life, and its finally starting to wear on me, and I need a change of pace. I hear New York is beautiful this time of year...

With my work, I want the viewer to get lost... To then take some time to find themselves between all the detail and noise that was once in my head, but is now embodied before them. The things I create are glimpses of what goes on in my head, and what goes on on the "other side." Which is what I'm referring to as the place our minds go when we start daydreaming. So take a look into my "other side," and exist there with me for a while. 

I want the viewer to think about something while they look at my art. I want their mind to wander, to go crazy, to bounce from thought to thought until they either realize something unexpected, or lose their train of thought completely. Some would say that if someone starts daydreaming while looking at your artwork, that it is a bad thing; that your artwork in question has failed. I see it a different way... If something I created has the power to captivate someone so, and transport even a small portion of them to another world, even for a mere twelve seconds...then I think that I have preformed the closest thing to magic that exists.