I transmute feeling into color and line.
I compost shitty past experiences, unhelpful beliefs, and stuck emotions into raw, wild, colorful beauty.
Art is how I alchemize the weight of the world into something that expands me instead of crushes me.
To move through this moment in time and resist the rise of authoritarianism, we need not just art but what art teaches: the capacity to be with the unknown; the ability to move through resistance and fear and act anyways; audacity; delight; the ability to imagine something new.
These are the skills that shape our future.
These are the skills that shape not just us, but the world we're building.