In the age of AI, I will use this moment to be as human as possible. See the mistakes within my grammar and punctuation and let it be a testament that I will not replace my own self in my creative process. When I say ‘as human as possible’, I think I really mean ‘as authentic as possible’, which is a trait I recently felt I was straying away from. Since I was a wee-one, I processed the world through materials. I didn't know who I was, but I knew how to create something that did. I want to emphasize that I was and am, despite my greatest efforts, incapable of sticking to a single medium of expression, or silencing my curiosities of this multifaceted human experience. This made it rather hard to commodify and explain my art, because to reduce it to a palatable structured paragraph would be a lie- it would be inauthentic. Foolishly, I even asked AI to write me a bio. I let it tell me who I was and what my art meant. But the pursuit of discovering who I am is how I discover what my art means, and vice versa. AI removed the very purpose of the process. So in honor of honesty, in honor of authenticity, and in honor of the messy human experience, I will simply state my art is a means of processing the world around me and within me. Each material represents a different need: control, surrender, structure, freedom, power, release. I use art to confront what is buried inside, allowing the shadow to take form. For many years I hid myself within my work, but now I search for myself in it. Emphasising the process which brings forth memories, thoughts, and emotions to the surface- I look for symbols as they appear. What do they mean to me? Which symbol is ‘which me’? And as more questions are answered, more appear- Isn't that beautiful?