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Everything I am and everything I make is me trying to be happy. From a young age I learned to use humor to cope with the trauma I have experienced, to pretend everything is okay. I learned that if I focus on the bad, I only get more bad. I have been fighting the bad my entire life, as many many other people are as well. I do the same thing in my work. I make things that make me happy, that make me forget about the bad that is there. I try to create silly and playful sculptures, drawings, and a overall experience that makes me focus on the good. In turn it is also a goal of mine to relieve other people that find themselves focusing on the bad, and maybe take a second and have fun looking at my stuff.
My drawings are a representation of my memories. I think about a memory that makes me laugh, sometimes it’s a small moment that no one else caught or sometimes it is a hilarious one people never stop talking about, and I create a loose depiction showing how I remember it. I only try to draw the good memories. The memories that make me forget the bad. The colors I put on the drawings come after, sometimes I pick them based on the colors of the things I draw, but most of the time I forget what color things were so I just pick intuitively.
Some of my drawings influence my sculptures! I take the shapes that I create in my drawings that I really like and I build it with clay. I take those shapes that were once a memory and just make them silly shapes. In the end that’s all they are: blobs and lines. However, for me they are a part of my history.
The display of my pieces will just focus on having fun playing with the shapes. I will arrange them in a way that I enjoy based on the color I like most that day, the outfit I am wearing, how I feel, and so many other things. It is a intuitive process that is another way for me to have fun and focus on the good.
My drawings are a representation of my memories. I think about a memory that makes me laugh, sometimes it’s a small moment that no one else caught or sometimes it is a hilarious one people never stop talking about, and I create a loose depiction showing how I remember it. I only try to draw the good memories. The memories that make me forget the bad. The colors I put on the drawings come after, sometimes I pick them based on the colors of the things I draw, but most of the time I forget what color things were so I just pick intuitively.
Some of my drawings influence my sculptures! I take the shapes that I create in my drawings that I really like and I build it with clay. I take those shapes that were once a memory and just make them silly shapes. In the end that’s all they are: blobs and lines. However, for me they are a part of my history.
The display of my pieces will just focus on having fun playing with the shapes. I will arrange them in a way that I enjoy based on the color I like most that day, the outfit I am wearing, how I feel, and so many other things. It is a intuitive process that is another way for me to have fun and focus on the good.
