-Artist Statement-

my art. what is it to me?

a life-saver. a spiritual guide. a new-found freedom. I have always been a quite private person. few friends, but close ones. the thing i feared most in high school, was speech class. i was terrified to speak, terrified to share myself, and plagued with lumps... in my throat. 

i have long carried a heavy concern around what others might think of me. i have come to realize that the red flags were merely waving, because of what i thought about myself. and it wasn't much...

when i found paint however (in March of 2021), the shakiness subsided; little by little; and a new addiction, was born. 

art has allowed me space to pry painful splinters from my soul, and carve them into something more beautiful, but not necessarily less sharp. i create with meaning, messages and subliminal motives abound. it is never my intent to offend, merely to strike a meaningful conversation.

while my 'style' is seeming to take on various forms, i currently refer to it as a-i-r: abstract, illustrative, realism. 

i am obsessed with watercolor & pen.

i ponder and percolate over ghostly forms.

body parts are my bread & butter.

poetry, a passion.

and a name, called: 

-blis xo