About the Art

I've always been drawn to art. I went to film school thinking I'd find my way as an artist. Instead, I found a love for art history. 

Fast forward, I'm still an artist. It just took me twenty years to release my first piece.

This piece ties together the strands that began in my youth and culminates in who I am today. I could label thousands of those strands of lived experience, but I have no reason to.

As you meet me today, I am an artist with the curiosity of a scientist and the mind of a philosopher.

This project sets out to do a few things:

• Create a year of honest work in public
  This is a one year test of what happens when I show up consistently and let the work speak for itself, without optimizing myself into a brand.

• Test whether a modern artist can stay human without becoming a brand
  Social platforms reward simplification. They push you toward a clean, recognizable signal. I want to see if it is possible to participate without compressing myself into something performative.

• Find the role of the artist in today’s society
  Not the romantic version, and not the influencer version. I want to understand what the artist becomes when platform incentives start shaping the work and the self at the same time.

• Prove sustainability is possible
  I want to test whether an artist can build real income in an oversaturated content world, without relying on luck, and without betraying the core of what makes art feel true.

• Use culture as the subject, not the backdrop
  Underneath it all, this is cultural research. I’m using art as a way to study the norms we live inside, and to ask better questions about what social media is doing to us.

Over the next year, I’m going to dive into social media. I’ll make a lot of work across multiple platforms and curate it here as one public record.

I’m testing a new path for the modern artist, because the current one seems to come with tradeoffs I don’t accept.