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HERE YOU WILL FIND A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF MY SAVED WORK

I create because I find it intrinsically fulfilling. When I was in kindergarten, my mom asked the teacher when the “bird project” was due. I wouldn’t stop talking about the work I had to do for it. She discovered we were not studying birds. I just loved pine grosbeaks and wanted to create about them. I joke that I always like to have some “project” going. I’ve noticed I return to consistent ideas. Below you will find loose collections, unintentionally amassed.

I’ve always loved the ocean. It forces humility and beauty upon me. One day I’d like to live where I can see it.

I wonder if my continual creations of idealized male bodies are reductive. I make them anyway.

Trees might be my religion. A trail run through them, breathing, moving, breathing, is embodied.