“Trusting Shadow Selves”

Is a mixed media colored pencil drawing completed in May 2024. It took 2 months to complete, I worked on it through the shakiness of a road trip across the United States. Once I finally got it done I decided it took too much work to just have one of, and decided to figure out how to make prints of my artwork. Because of this piece I am now able to sell multiples of my artworks. This drawing is meant to represent how many different versions of the self can be present in a person at once. From the fetus, to the child and the current self, to the versions beyond.

“PU$$Y POWER”

Is a block print that I completed in November of 2024. I started just printing it onto paper like normal, but soon realized I could make wearable art with it. Apart from just being a funny shirt with a cat on it, I wanted to represent queer pride and feminism in this piece. I started it excited and hopeful, right before the election. I thought that I would be able to celebrate the first woman president while wearing this shirt… Now Instead I wear it in protest. It is the first clothing project in which I’ve attempted to reproduce the same design multiple times over with a block print.

“I Only Pray When I Am Terrified”

Is a painting I started in October of 2023. It is on a large 24” by 36” Canvas and it is done with acrylic paint. I finished the painting in November 23’, but didn’t make the moss frame to go with it until March of 2025 when it got accepted into the Pierce College Student Art Show. When people see this painting, the most common thing that they say is, “What does it mean?” And that’s a hard question to answer, many of the visual components like the moth, eyes, and flowers are repeated in much of my artwork just because I like painting them. But the meaning lies somewhere in the chained up figure, meant to represent the pain and suppression of the collective. I painted this just after the genocide of Palestinians began, and I think that had a lot of impact on the piece.

“Avocado Arcade”

Is a mixed media painting that I began when I was 13 right before I sold my art for the first time. The avocados in the middle were cut out of a watercolor painting I did for my first market, they didn’t sell and sat in my piles of old drawings for years. In November of 2024 I decided that I could use them for a new project, I cut them out and glued them to a matboard which I drew the design on with posca pens. The design is meant to be the carpet in an arcade, something which I have always loved. To me this piece represents how much my art has developed over the years.

     “The Apple Of My Eye”

Is an 18” by 24” charcoal drawing completed in March 2025. It was done for my first drawing class in college, beginning drawing. The rules were to draw the same object from multiple different viewpoints in seperate cells. I decided to look at different stages of an object as well as different viewpoints. The seed, the untouched apple, the apple cut in half, the apple eaten. I sold this piece to Ashford Creek Pottery, it is now in the upstairs museum.

“Dear Human Reading This”

Is a mini-book that I finished on Valentine’s day in 2025. Each small drawing seen on the page above is just two inches tall, allowing me to fit all of the pages onto a single piece of paper so that when I print them off, each page, once cut up and stapled together, can make an entire book. I started this project because I felt like the world was in a very negative place, with more hatred being spread than love. So I decided to make a book of reminders that I think could help strangers through hard times. Since then I’ve been leaving them in various places for people to find.