Normality is Boring

Visual Art – Seattle

I was born to be an artist and I have no limits. I've been drawing for basically most of my life and have been a photographer for four years. My photography has evolved into black and white street photography as well as simple fine art portraiture. But the kicker is my photography is dark; I take photos of the homeless and city ruin as well as portraits that sometimes portray weird, insane, or crazy imagery. I love the beauty of the broken, but not only that, I have a passion to make people really look at the world around us. The street photography is my favorite because I feel that by making people look at the homeless images I capture, I am making them think and acknowledge this problem that nobody deserves to go through. The world is meant to be shared. My art has seriously evolved in a rapid way recently. I used to only work with black and white ballpoint pens, then I went to microns and watercolor, to drawing on vintage photographs, then finally to the art of collage. Working with photos was a genius accident. I bought this bag of vintage old photos not knowing what to do with them. They sat and collected more dust until finally I was like "time to just doodle on them". I drew them as skull faces because they're dead now, clearly photos from the 20s, and I felt it was symbolic to life. Eventually I needed more photos and found some from the 80s-00s and the gloss was too hard to draw on so.. collaging it was! My art will continue to change but photos will always remain a big part of my life.