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Thank you to every single person who finds their way to the website, to this page, and into my life.

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I first began thinking of my art as an entrepreneurship in the summer of 2021. I was reletively fresh out of art school and had more time than ever during COVID-19. My biggest art interest was ecology and drawing the natural world, so I began as a wildlife artist and poet selling prints, stickers and bookmarks I designed.​ Right when I got started, my mother passed away in August 2021.

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The grief slowed me down a bit, but also allowed me to try new things creatively. 2022 was the best growth I've ever had as an artist and the only year I was ever 100% financially supported by drawing. I found my own style and meaning by teaching myself to draw pet caricatures. In a growing age of digital art (and the current projection of AI art), the medium of drawing live with somebody witnessing the whole traditional drawing feels so extraordinary.

 

The pet part of the caricatures is from, well... I just love cats so much.

 

In spring of 2023, I had go back to working part-time at a pet store. Of all the non-art related jobs I could have, I love that I got to dedicate half of my life to art, and the other half to animals. I was able to keep drawing and doing art shows on the weekends, meeting pet parents, and celebrating all the joy that they give us. During this year I got to partner with animal shelters, vets, and other organizations simply by drawing caricatures. I started making pet beds and toys for because I wanted to make things that could be directly enjoyed by pets themselves, too. I had so many ideas of things I wanted to make and so many amazing people I had met and worked with the last two years. I felt so unbelievably supported.

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And then, in was 2024.

 

I didn't make a single post on social media with my art account this year. I had begun working full-time and slowly my half for animals, half for art, became all for a paycheck. Things were getting more expensive, more tiring, and I couldn't keep up. At one point, I had forgot to check the mailbox for so long they marked my address as vacant. The state government told me I had been doing my business taxes incorrectly. I had no health insurance, no savings account, student loans and a pile of credit card debt from 2022. It turns out that I wasn't actually fully supporting myself with art that year. Basically, I became extremely depressed. In the midst of all the guilt from finances, requests for art commissions I didn't respond to, and growing sense of displacement living in the US... in the midst of giving up on my dreams of ever owning a house, longing to feel a sense of stability in my final year before turning 30... in the midst of all my self-doubt and the most insecure I've ever felt in my entire life...

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My cat Squeaky died at age 18 of cancer on November 1st, 2024.

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He was with me for his entire little life. Without him, I truly started to forget who I was. In 2025, I suddenly felt like I was going to make all the wrong decisions all the time. I would decide I really wanted to get to work on time, but to do so I had to sacrafice moments where my cat Fiona was sitting on my shoulders and one day she will die, so instead I decide to spend a few more minute with her. I would decide to sit in my studio at night after work, but that meant the kittens wouldn't get playtime since I don't see them all day and one day they will die so they are more important right now and art is not. For every moment something was happening, I would feel all the moments in time that they would not be happening anymore.

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But during all the moments I wasn't an artist, I slowing started to remember all the moments I was.

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I draw because I love to have a piece of paper on my desk and all my ideas scattered around me. I draw animals because I love learning about how they interact with the world around them. I draw pets because I love having them, and I want to celebrate every single animal that we share our homes and lives with.

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So again, with all my heart, thank you so much to everyone.

You not only support my art, but remind me that creativity is the best way we can interact with the world.​