I feel like I've always just had an urge to make things even when I was young I liked to glue rocks together and make creatures out of rocks. I drove my mom crazy because I never wanted to throw any of the boxes away from our fast food and I'd make Kleenex boxes or you know money banks or whatever out of the boxes and so I think I've just always liked repurposing or making things and I guess it's just been kind of a lifelong interest.
For me as a maker, it is part of how I process the world and understand my own experience as a human. And then it is part of how I connect with other people and share that, and have conversations about that, and hopefully inspire other people to think about things that they might not have thought about otherwise. As an artist, I seek out art all the time. I travel whenever I have the opportunity and go to look at art, and it gives me a window into people's lives. To time periods, to places that I wouldn't have otherwise, and it inspires me in terms of the potential that we have as human beings.
