What do you do?
I suppose you could say I’m a collaborator! I’ve had the opportunity to work a lot with other local artists and vendors to help make ideas come to life. Sometimes that’s personal projects close to someone’s heart, other times it’s for promotional material or social media. I’ve gotten a lot of the opportunities and networking connections I have from working with the local make-up school Vivaluxx, and this community in general has been amazing in exploring an artistic side of me I don’t think I would have otherwise had the opportunity to experience. It’s a beautiful feeling to make ideas come to fruition with nothing but you and a few other people's help, creating a new reality or a different iteration of it.
Advice/words of wisdom that affected your life you’d like to pass on?
One of the biggest pieces of advice I could share is to stop being scared of following something that you feel passionate about and to not be scared of failing because it’s a natural part of becoming great. I personally have been holding myself back in my life, and I want myself and everyone else to realize that it doesn’t help anyone to hold back your fire. That failing means you have challenged yourself and garnered a new learning experience. We can change so many more things than we think we can when we start opening ourselves up to do things that fill us with passion and not being scared to try and potential (probably!) mess up in the process.