The majority of my art has come from the feelings, mindset and a constant healing of many of the things that I have experienced in this life. People come and go, bad things happen but art and the ability to create has always been a constant. There is a certain peace that comes with spending time alone in the darkroom developing film or painting alone with the music on and my thoughts flowing onto the canvas. Creating has always been my go to coping mechanism, for all the times that I could never find the right thing to say or a way to describe what I was feeling I was able to easily translate that into a work of art. Over the years my work has been able to adapt and grow with me, through all of the highs and lows that have come my way and endless flow of photos and paintings has followed. I also like to hope that when people view my work they can see the emotion that I have put in and that what I have created could also help them cope or heal from whatever it may be they have gone through. It can be very difficult at times to be so vulnerable and wear so much of my heart on my sleeve when I show my work but what is the point of creating unless you are allowing yourself to be vulnerable? To open yourself up to all the possibilities, even the bad? If one person walks away from that viewing or critique feeling slightly more peaceful for further along in their journey of healing then it is entirely worth it.