During my elementary school years, life consisted of naive dedication to football and social events. But as I grew up, I began to find traces of a deeper significance in the entertainment and expression involved in doing these things. In composing challenging drawings, I found this same amusement. There were days where I’d wrestle with each shape until it looked more and more like the animal I had never even interacted with, a horse, and as I would etch out lines, my dedication began to grow. As I continued exploring various forms of art, I even began to play the piano; spending hours teaching myself and expanding my artistic ways of expression.
But then something happened that would change the meaning of the routine like movements of every drawing and song I had done before; in 2007, my family moved from California to Brazil. For the first year, while I learned Portuguese, there was no verbal way for me to communicate. Having left my piano back home, I was left staring at my twin brother playing his new guitar. Growing jealous, I claimed my interest in the instrument as well and used it to compose a new language, with which I could communicate in my new home. But if it weren’t for this transition and it forcing me to expand creatively, I wouldn’t have the same perspectives, abilities, or matured development of my passion needed in order to speak for others who are socially limited.

Carefully, with a transparent ruler and sharpened pencil, I drew the soft and sturdy, yet peaceful, lines of the euphoric burst of inspiration I had obtained. These math-notebook doodles evolved from small margin worlds into AP English-Notebook illustrations. Instead of being bound by the faded red of the left wall, they began to spread out onto the page into patterns and descriptive, plumped expressions. I began portraying the Poe and Transcendentalist poems we read and I could connect to the feeling being spoken through my own drawings. This new world of visual art brought me to study the art of capturing feelings in a split second: the challenging art of photography. This directed me to think about the framed expression and composition of a piece, and I applied this to my drawing. Drawing then turned into design, illustration, and eventually painting. Relishing each of the new ways I found to express these feelings bottled into every common human being, yet bound by limiting words, I started combining them all. Digital art became the canvas for expression, mixed media became the best way to reach out to every texture and its associated expression, and freedom of communication grew inside of my mind. I began to manifest a new perspective that caught underlying sentiments, thus a new art would surge and inspiration from anything begged its way into the confines of my body; a new weighted piece, a new world, would find its way onto the canvas in front of me.​

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