I create art because I enjoy the process of making something. It may be an intensive and tedious work to create something, but I feel that the effort is well worth it. I had my first formal art classes in middle school that focused on the basics of drawing and painting. It provided a foundation to my journey as an artist. In high school, I took several digital arts classes and found a whole new side of art that I’ve never explored before. Making videos and animations, creating websites and 3D modeling was fascinating. Today, I still do both traditional arts with pen and paper and digital arts with a computer and software.

I enjoy the challenge of making something that requires me to think how I can create it. People may say that art is easy. I would disagree; it takes a certain amount of thinking to engineer what you want the end result to be. But sometimes thinking doesn’t work and just going with the flow can lead to something else just as incredible. The end result isn’t written in stone and neither is the process.

My work often explores identity and aspects of my life. Most of it is based off personal experiences because that is where I draw my inspiration from. Many aspects of my life influence my work, such as friends and family. And like many others, I often wonder who I am. My work will often reflect some aspect of my journey to define myself.