MY MAKING

Early Life

Making is a constant in my life. I can’t remember not being in the middle of a project. Having a poet and photographer mum and a software engineer dad with a love of painting meant creativity was everywhere. So, it was only natural for it to be a big part of my life. My early artwork consisted of doodling and attempting time and time again to make a comic book or online video game on Microsoft Front Page. I dream big.

School

In my adolescence, I got addicted to fashion design. I learned to sew and make patterns, the whole shebang. It was going great, but my ideas were too big to be contained in a garment. So, I had to move on to other fields. Around this time, I was introduced to coding, web design, and program development. It’s addictive. I made websites and Nyan Cat clones in “Scratch” when asked to do PowerPoint presentations. Generally, I just coded my heart out.

I picked up Graphic design to communicate some of my overflow ideas. And fell in love with poetry. I took up traditional printmaking, which sucked me into the tactile ways of making that I had missed in graphic design and coding. All these skills I learned were piling up and adding to each other. I felt my ideas flowing out of me and made art I’m still proud of.