My journey as an artist started with scrawling “creatures” all over my homework, which was a habit I never grew out of. Inevitably, my passion for the arts developed from there into a desire to experiment with a new medium that would change my relationship with my body and self: theatre. As I invested more of myself into visual arts and found a love for gesture, it felt natural to bring that love for gesture and line into the performing arts. However, I truly caught the bug for good when I discovered Shakespeare in my adolescence, and ever since then, I’ve been excitedly hopping between Shakespeare and devising and movement.
An essential part of my work in all mediums is the exploration of the body, senses, and animals. In my illustration work, bodies may be fluid and pulsating, pushing at their own physical boundaries or even breaking them. I identify as a gender non-conforming woman, and seek to bring a genderqueer perspective to my art as well. Part of why I love Shakespeare so much is the freedom it has given me to play traditionally masculine or gender-ambiguous roles. My queerness can’t be decoupled from my creative process, so I indulge in it wherever I can. I love experimenting with the nature of the body as a vessel—albeit temporary—with a bottomless capacity for change and transformation. When I need a respite from drawing and performing, I make teeny bits of progress at learning banjo!
