Portfolios

Artist Statement How Thirsty Is AI Mixed media: Colored pencils, gel pen, watercolor I created a Multimedium piece with the intent of spread awareness about the negative consequences on our environment that AI inflicts. I chose this topic because I believe that the effects of AI on our environment aren’t shared as much as they should be, we see commercials and social media posts promoting the usage of AI.

Artist Statement Breath Mixed media: gouache and  colored pencils “Breath” was a concept I chose to embody as our world faces mass deforestation and habitat loss. I wanted to focus on a devastating event that is taking place as you read this, but also present the work in a bright, pleasing, and light hearted manner. As trees produce the oxygen we need to survive, and in turn take in the Carbon Dioxide that would suffocate our atmosphere, their presence in our world is critical. If we continue to tear down forests and massacre wildlife, how are we supposed to live?…

Artist Statement turning trash into tomorrow alcohol marker on watercolor paper This drawing was inspired by political cartoons and posters from the 1960's that were made to make people start caring about environmental change. The subject of a dumpster with flowers is made to show that nature is resilient, but the earth needs our help to create less waste.

Artist Statement Quinta Essentia Mixed media: Acrylic Paint, Marker, Paint Pens on Paper The world turns with time; quiet, deliberate, inevitable. Each moment slips into the next, always in flux, always changing. The most pressing task, then, is to capture the world as we see it: its beauty, its depth. Though we all walk different paths, following our own personal legends, we must find some way to preserve both the infinitesimal and the immense. For in doing so, we remind ourselves that we are always living in shifting moments of time, and that what the world shows us now will…

Artist Statement The Trade of Worlds Mixed media: Acrylic Paint, Marker, Paint Pens on Paper My painting, which is produced by acrylic paint and ink pens, depicts the relationship between man made products and nature. The human race is a main source of climate change. Pollution is spread in our oceans from oil and litter as well as toxic gases and fossil fuels are diffusing through the air we breathe. We are destroying the planet that we live in without much regard to the rest of the organisms that live on this earth. Two worlds - nature and humans -…

Artist Statement What We Take Acrylic Paint on Canvas The Earth needs just as much as it gives. Just as it gives us life, it is important that we give it back. When the Earth gives us lush forests that provide us with the oxygen we need to breathe, or the resilient rivers we use to drink from, or the beautiful foliage that brings brightness into an otherwise colorless land; it is important that we ensure those forests are safe, those rivers are clean, that those beautiful bunches foliage are able to survive. The Earth provides us with so much,…

Artist Statement She Knows You Watercolor on paper  What does the earth need? What does it provide? I want all to understand that the Earth is just one part of the divine feminine. She is Mother to all and will give to her children. Even if it hurts her and her counterpoint the moon in the process. I used gold to emphasize that she is a goddess in disguise, right under our noses, and she gives all with no thanks...just like every mother.

Artist Statement That resilience to find that change Acrylics In this age what matters most is what you make of it. Not what other people do but what you do, the steps you take to make the change. Resilience is rising above and overcoming. My piece shows how when people space out they go to a place in their mind where they tune everything out. With the world being so loud and destroyed sometimes people need to go deep within themselves to find what they are going to do next. In that isolation they will find what they believe in…

Artist Statement Untitled Drawing I wanted to show that everyone sees climate change differently and it's not just about the polar bears. I started by drawing what the ideal planet wants to look like and what I want to see. Then on the other side I drew what I thought climate change is to me and what I think of. The shapes and designs I made in the objects represent the different thoughts and how people see climate change. Climate change destroys our planet and I thought the shapes represented how people see it. Some people don't believe in climate…

Artist Statement Climate Change Commentary Collage  The idea that inspired this is that no matter what nature reclaims what is rightfully hers. Unlike most things portrayed in reality, available art, and media, nature is shown as a strong fierce woman this piece. She is supposed to push the fact that if we don't learn to thrive alongside nature she will take back her creations destroying us in the process. I chose this because I was looking at overgrowth on abandoned buildings and thought of the statement, so I created the piece around this concept. I tried to use earthy tones…