@Curator

1 • I identify as "Illustrator".

2 • I use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, but everything I do begins with paper & pencil. I have to work things out on physical paper before I take it digitally. My feeling is that if I can't make an image "come alive" on paper, I'm not going to be able to do it on screen.

3 • #AlfonsMucha, #MaxfieldParrish, #MauriceSendak, #MaryBlair, #AlHirschfeld, #RichardBernstein, #WilliamMorris, #CharlesSchulz, #DanDeCarlo, #LyndaBarry, The #HernandezBrothers.

4 • Empathy. Taking time for kindness. That multiple feelings can coexist, not cancel each other out. Things can be cute and scary and funny and sad and sexy all at the same time. We are not our bodies, we are not our limitations. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - #OscarWilde, LADY WINDEMERE'S FAN

5 • Sometimes it's just a line or curve that I can see in my mind, and, after a struggle, I'm able to express it in a physical form all the world can see.
Sometimes it's when my art points someone in the direction of music that makes their life better.
Sometimes it's when I get to work with other creators and feel part of something.
Any doors that have ever opened for me in life, it was my art that opened the door.