I am a teaching artist, exhibiting my work locally as well as fulfilling online commissions. In 2021, I completed my master's thesis which examined the relationship between illustration, "fine arts" and literary text. At the time, I chose to focus specifically on "The Waste Land" by T.S Elliot, as it connected to the pandemic we began to experience in 2020. Being a visual artist, an avid reader, and a non-native speaker, I have intertwined text and art within my work. Texts and images are all around us; at times, they may seem inescapable. In a world saturated by sounds and colors, what we view, read and hear shapes our identities and points of view. Just as a writer revises their work until they are satisfied, I combine many different mediums in my pieces, building upon traditional sketches and paintings, and digitally manipulating them, often adding elements of photography and collage.