About Me
Ok bear with me here I'm going to start this off with a family anecdote which is extremely cliche but I'm a horrible writer and don't know any other way of explaining how I got into art.
When I was little I was very lucky to be able to live in New York City where art and culture seemingly flowed down every street and avenue. Guiding me throughout it was my family where everyone-except my mom- has or had a job in a creative industry. My dad designs retail spaces and signage, my uncle is an industrial designer and both my grandfather’s were printmakers. But it was my grandmother, who was a painter and textile designer, who had the biggest hand in guiding me through the art scene. What seemed like every weekend my grandmother would take me to the Met and one-time whilst we were at the Met I saw a man drawing a sculpture. I told my grandmother I wanted to do that and she gave me her notepad and pen that was in her purse and I started doodling one of the vases that were in the sculpture court of the Met. The actual doodle is long gone but the memory of going to the Met with my grandmother still extremely prevalent in my mind.
In 2014 my family thought it was best if we moved across the Hudson River to New Jersey. Although New York had all this culture and atmosphere that could inspire an artist for thousands of years, it also gave my family a crap ton of stress. I remember at the time feeling like I was losing something by not being able to go to places with my grandmother.
Again, I'm sorry you had to read that I know it was extremely cliched.
However now looking back, the move to New Jersey strengthened me as a designer. Instead of looking for art in museums I'm now looking for it in the mundanity of New Jersey and trust me New Jersey is the most mundane place on earth compared to New York. I believe that a designer-especially a graphic designer-operates and creates within the mundane. For example, many graphic designers create logos that most of the time aren’t paid much attention to. This is something that I try and highlight within most of my work and especially my photography. I also use a lot of typographic solutions as I believe type is a truly beautiful object that goes unnoticed under most people's noses. Rather than follow this trend I try to showcase the type when I use it and make it the focal point of the piece. Overall I feel that If I don’t highlight some of these objects and places they would instead be lost or their true beauty not shown.