Femme Savant

Visual Art – Los Angeles

I\'m a bit neurotic but I\'ve grown to associate my unconventional ways with a strong point of view. My affinity for the creative arts began at 7. I started tracing different shapes, cartoons, animals; all things pertinent to a 7 year old; and thereby taught myself to draw. I continued to express myself more freely at the rebellious age of 12. I\'d lock myself in my bedroom and get lost in the musical waves of Incubus and The Cranberries while painting on anything I could find: cardboard boxes, furniture, clothes, whatever occupied my space, up to and including the walls until my Pops tried to intervene. He told me I was scaring all my sister\'s friends and needed to choose one color that he and I could paint over my \"art\" with. Even though I was made to \"clean up my act,\" I still consider vandalizing my bedroom at that early age to be one of my life\'s masterpieces. Seeing my soul come alive via art became sacred to my blossoming psyche and I refused to allow anyone to convince me otherwise. Ironically, starting anew and incessantly creating something from nothing became my immediate approach to living. It only became a matter of dignity and determination that I would paint my way through grade school and study art history in college, regardless if my family knew how to support such an undertaking. This collection, #VenusPsychology, embodies different psychosis I\'ve experienced throughout my brief years as a young female.