At my core I am a musician, but my creativity refuses to be confined to just one medium. Creativity, music and art are the very foundation of my being. The lines between mediums blur as I explore and discover more of them. Music is the way that I understand and express emotion, while visual art captures the beauty I see in the world that others seem to miss. Each medium offers a different language, a unique way to express a certain facet of my experience in this world where normal human conversation falls short.

I’ve always been drawn to the balance between structure and emotion, precision and instinct. My work and life have been shaped by that tension– how a chord change can feel like an intrusive thought or an epiphany, how a single brush stroke can transform a two-dimensional object into a moment, how a photograph can capture a moment in time that would have otherwise dissolved into the ether. I have never created to fit within a category, often pondering whether that is even possible, or whether that’s what other artists are doing in their creative process.

Art and music have become a way to bridge the gap between myself and the world. I create to process, to question, to explore the unseen, and to bring emotion into form.

Lately most of my time has been split between: 

     1. sitting at my piano where I’ve been teaching myself how to improvise/create riffs around chord structure while exploring whatever melodies and lyrics pop into my brain, and teaching myself basic music production tasks using a free browser-based DAW called BandLab

     2. karaoke, brushing up on my woodwind (and guitar) skills, street photography, taking pictures of my friends that make them smile, painting, drawing, sculpting, and making Instagram reels for work and for joy using CapCut