My favorite poem, Annabel Lee, is written about a woman. She sits waiting in a lighthouse for her long, lost love to arrive. The lighthouse is a symbol of love, way of representing feelings. This happy thought of mine would not be possible without stone, I wouldn’t feel that type of joy, nor would I understand the poem. Possibly, the poem would never have existed and I would never like my name. I’ll never know if I’m more connected to the stone within the poem, or the words written on the page.

Rocks don’t always just sit there. They build what are known today. They have made so many amazing things in this world just with rocks. One of the world wonders is Stone hedge and those are literally rocks. I think that if we didn’t have rocks today, we really wouldn’t have anything. Most of our supplies origin in stone before they were metal, personally I think that’s really cool.

Artist Statement
My most urgent concern is the loss of personal creativity. The ideas fleeing your brain leaving you with a black and white world with no definition. The very fact that one day I could wake up to a blank world and have no substance of creativity in my mind. I couldn't bear the thought of having to go though my life and have it be dull. All of my art heavily relies on the child's imagination, the small voice in the back of everyone’s head. The thoughts that make you want to color outside the lines and say whatever comes to mind. I believe that the childlike nature of art work truly brings out the creativity in people, to give them what I never want to lose. The main aspects of my work that show the childish thoughts are the numerous colors and destruction of pieces. Each individual has their own personal feeling to each color, something in the color provokes them to feel each emotion differently. For example, a drawing of a clown in black and white gives nothing for the viewer to feel, other than a somber or scary feeling. Once you add color and give in to the child inside, everything becomes vivid. You can feel different emotions from one another, connect with the art in front of you, and understand the concept behind it. I have always visualized each person in my life as colors, that they show me their personality with each color. It brings light into my life as I want to bring into others. The destruction of one's passion also evokes the child. Whether they mean to or not, each child has ruined something that was precious to another. I like to utilize this in my art as a subtraction of depth. Covering different areas to give the viewer something to aspire to see. And ultimately ruining the image for some who lack creativity. When I was younger my sister went through my mothers pictures and deleted all of the ones of herself, leaving my mom with only her memory of those moments. This destroyed my mother, but when I look back on that moment now, I see the beauty. She was left to be in the moment, only to remember the things that meant everything to her. In a way it was the destruction that created such beautiful memories, a story that we still laugh about today. I reflect a lot into my art to bring the two worlds together. To disrupt just as much as I give hope. To give people creativity but also force them to have it.