“there isn’t a person you wouldn’t love if you could read their story.”

This quote has been my mother’s favorite, and has been her instagram bio, for as long as I can remember. As a therapist & social worker, my mother has instilled in me a deep-set curiosity in understanding other people and hearing their stories. My father, on the other hand, instilled in me an appreciation for the classics in many areas of the arts — ranging from David Bowie’s music to films like Fargo, which necessitated endless William H. Macy impersonations on my dad’s end. Neither of my parents are artists, technically. But I am an artist because of them. In my family, art brings us closer to one another— storytelling is an act of love. This ethic of empathy through storytelling is what drives me in my artistic processes. The experience of being alive is the one thing connecting us all. It is my aim to share and revel in this feeling of acute aliveness with others.