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Artist Statement
There is a point when words are no longer sufficient- when feeling and experience holds you captive for an expression seemingly impossible to achieve. The soul languishes as deep calls unto deep and silent groans and utterances ache to be released, freed, and made tangible. My art is saturated with the visceral murmurings that ensnare, yet require escape. Each brush and pen stroke is an outward reverberation of emotion resounding within. It is visual dialogue with the internal ebb and flow created by the struggles of life, death, experience, time, and memory. It is the overflow, the necessary out pour of what fills me.
I was born in Bellflower, California on July 5th, 1990 and was raised in Temple City, CA. My passions have always included the arts and I grew up singing and dancing in show choir and theatre (in addition to drawing and painting, of course). I was blessed to have multiple mentors invest in me through my artistic passions, and it created a drive and creativity that filled my heart and spirit with so much joy, fundamentally shaping the person I am today. Because of this, encouragement and empowerment of youth through art is important to me. I have experienced struggling kids transform as a result of their newfound outlet for processing and expression, and it creates so much inward and outward beauty. I have led several childrens workshops in theatre, and I hope to continue to pay it forward within the visual arts as well by becoming an art teacher.
I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, an emphasis in Drawing and painting (and the fulfillment of the teaching concentration), from Azusa Pacific University in December 2012. I had my first solo show titled "Deep Calls Unto Deep" that same month. But what I came to value most within the academic scene was being surrounded and supported by an art community, something I constatnly want to encourage, seek out, and engage in.
2013-2014 was a highly important time in my life. I spent it travelling the world, doing missionary and humanitarian work with churches, hospitals, and orphanages: working to empower the homeless, drug addicts and sex trafficking victims with a better life. This has empassioned me with a greater empathy, and I hope to be doing a lot of work spreading healing, light, and love abroad- dedicated to make this world a better place one heart and soul at a time. Some of my art features themes of social justice, and my ultimate goal is to pair with hospitals in third world countries, setting up art therapy programs.
For everything: every talent, every success and every hardship, every creative and compassionate spark within me, I give thanks to God. For He is the vine and I am the branches- wholly forgiven, redeemed and completely enough through the grace and incredible love of Jesus.
10% of all art sales will be donated toward a charitable cause
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