"Toxin Season" (December 2024) Charcoal, ink, watercolors and natural pigments on paper 30 x 40in In this artwork, I wanted to portray a group of stylish, alternative young people who are turning their back on the masses with their choice of drugs and intense stares. Inspired on some real people and artists I’ve met along my alternative life journey. I also just wanted to develop my illustration skills more, since I’ve always been interested in making album covers and visual storytelling. I designed a special typeface for the artwork as well, as many music albums, movies, and videogames with signature style aesthetics

"Silence of the lambs" (March 2022) Sketch made on cigarettes with various makeup items. Retouched on procreate (digital art) I drew the moth from Silence of the Lambs, a well known cult classic horror film. In this piece and some others, I wanted to juxtapose the associated softness and femininity with makeup with a symbol of death and in a way, lacking a heart or love/empathy, plus the associated themes of psychopathy in horror cinema. It can also be said to be a combination of beauty and morbidity, and of masculine and feminine.

"Eat it" (November 2024) Charcoal, ink, and natural pigments on paper + digital media (procreate) In this illustration, I was thinking of combining the aesthetic of aggrotech/dark electro with a more "atmospheric" or "natural" medium choice, and the idea of the apple as an iconographic of "sin" came from a lecture in an online design class. I was originally making sketches for this class and this idea popped in my head. I thought it would make a sick sticker or patch, so I refined it a bit in procreate. It solidified my liking to bleed my experience in my Arts degree with charcoal drawing into my illustrations and designs.

"Beautiful day to have eyes" oil pastels on canvas This artwork emerged spontaneously as I was reflecting on social media posts that I wish I'd never come across in my life, and realized that a lot of my mental health struggles can be traced down to this sense of "consent violation" that I've always felt towards life at large due to media and propaganda. And this is a this day and age, a lot of people's perception of their fellow humans, love, sex, and relationships are constantly degraded, objectified, and turned into this annoying collective white noise such as the gender wars. As a trans person with a deep seated insecurity about my natural androgyny, I find myself in the middle of pointless judgements, stereotypes, and violent conversations when I enter the internet, often against my will, even when I keep hiding or blocking accounts. It's impossible to ignore at one point, and when I made this piece, I felt at a breaking point. The human figure remains genderless, ageless and in a way raceless (it doesn't have phenotypical features of any race beyond the generic skin color) as this human problem transcends demographics and social orders