Art

I started experimenting with this drawing style when I was at university, and though it’s developed and shifted in the years since, I never got tired of working with ink pens. Drawing curves from large spirals to tiny methodical concentric circles is a sort of meditation that will keep me happily occupied for hours on end. I’m often inspired by everyday conversations, the music I listen to, books I’m reading, and motifs in other artists’ pieces. Sometimes it’s the sunflower fields around Davis, and other times it’s knowing how much I’ll miss my home in California every time I leave.

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A good friend can keep us safe from the turbulence of life, without us ever realizing.

Inspired by Flume’s “Over You,’ whose sounds appear to be falling just like this torrential rain.

Feeling homesick before even leaving SFO, I spent the entire 10-hour flight drawing this, cramped in my economy seat.

When inspiration strikes out of nowhere and our ideas flow like tea out of a pot—can we explain ourselves then?

The Amtrak route between Davis and San Jose includes a beautiful stretch of blue sky and countless sunflowers reaching in every direction.

The expansive, liberating feeling of stretching out in the mountain sunshine, waterfalls falling and crisp air kissing your skin.

For a while, I really enjoyed drawing these flower petals (I still do), and I liked to experiment with the kind of landscape they might live on.

“Let me know you’re feeling me and seeing all the things I see.” — Chet Faker

These drawings are incredibly meditative—this is what happens when I let my pen explore the textures of my mind.

The blissful heat of the California sunshine. Darling, stay a little longer.

I imagined a creature growing out of the landscape of the hills I sat in while drawing this—I wondered how it might unfurl.

Then that creature needed a companion, and I wanted to play with patterns.

One of my dearest friends, Edin, and her head of voluptuous curls.

What would it be like to simultaneously look down on the planet and look up at it in the night sky?

Our words are always interpreted by others through the lens of their own ideas, experiences and subjective understanding of the world.