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I'm an illustrator, painter, writer, and sculptor and I've always loved expressing myself on paper...the ability to work within a space where I can make anything happen has always been a form of therapy for me. It's one of the reasons I love the Fantasy and Sci-Fi genres so much.

"That's the wonderful thing about crayons. They can take you to more places than a starship." (Guinan, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

I share an affinity for dark humor with some of my atypical real-life superheroes, like Tim Burton, Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, and Wes Anderson. Of course, I can't leave out the wondrously enchanting worlds created by Dr. Seuss and Disney, which fertilized my drive to invent worlds of my very own growing up, and still, to this day.

I tend to gravitate towards humorous stories about social ineptitude, mad science, the supernatural, and wonderfully addictive, perfectly imperfect, B-movie-like humor and exaggerated characters. I both fear and love my need to dive down the rabbit hole of my mind and exploring strange, fantastical, uninhibited worlds...and then express them as something tangible and deliberate on paper. I love symbolism as well as incorporating "secret" references to my inspirations...which probably a few niche people would pick up on. It's one way to bond with the niche reader in sharing what inspires me, but more specifically with those who can pick-up-on and maybe appreciate the references.

I leave you with the wise words of Fox Mulder:

"All we can do, Scully, is pull the thread and see what it unravels." (Fox Mulder, The X-Files)