About

Artist Statement

            More often than not, I sit down with my sketchbook and pencil in hand without much of a plan for my drawings. Only a handful of features that wind up in the finished product were intended from the start. Everything else comes from my unconscious. Information and ideas from documentaries, classes, the paranormal, podcasts, movies, games, tv shows, dreams—and everything I’ve ever experienced—consciously or unconsciously has the potential to be drawn.

My earliest influences were animals and nature as a whole. I never actually had the desire to be an artist when I was little. My first goal was to be an entomologist and then later an oceanographer who would be the first person to get footage of a live giant squid. Eventually I was introduced to Pokemon and it immediately piqued my interest. I have many drawings packed away of both real and made up Pokemon and still draw them to this day. My interest in creatures led to a fascination with the supernatural and paranormal. I remember trying to casually walk past the horror section at video stores so that I could look at the covers of the movies. I enjoy watching horror movies now, especially those with monsters rather than human killers.

What I find more interesting than horror movies are real-life cases of unexplained mysteries. Events happen in the world for which there may never be a universally accepted answer. There is much that we don’t understand: we know less about our own oceans–and things even closer to our everyday experiences–than we do about the surface of the moon. New discoveries that disprove old truths occur constantly. Nothing can truly be dismissed as impossible. If I were to choose something for my drawings to be about, it would be the unknown, the unexplained, the unsolved, and the idea of the impossible truth.