Ever since my early teens, I loved adding an element of horror into my artworks. Despite the negative feedback from my teachers and parents, the idea of getting a fearful reaction out of someone through a simple drawing fascinated me. Once I graduated school, I always felt like my horror drawings felt derivative and flat, having no substance besides "that's scary." This was something that I wanted to work on, while still being able to create art that I enjoyed that was unique to others.

During college at UW-Green Bay, I took a fiber and textiles class my final year, I fell in love with the process of embroidery, and the beautiful creations you can achieve from it. However, I personally disliked working with fabric and embroidery floss, due to the delicacy of the material. Through trial and error, I figured out that working with painting canvas and yarn can simulate embroidery, allowing me to create some "truly unique creations" as quoted from my professors. Throughout my pieces, I wanted to keep the theme of making viewers uncomfortable while looking at them.

When looking at my portfolio, it's true that there are some artworks that are more conventional, but that was due to peer pressure from my peers to make my art more sellable. Now, I strive to make my pieces disturbing to the eye. Every day I try to improve on my embroidery, from adding more textures, colors, and materials to the canvases. Whenever I show my pieces to others, they have told me that they have an urge to touch the canvas, despite the disturbing imagery. I hope one day I can incorporate some aspect of touching into future galleries, despite it being such a taboo action to do in the art gallery world.