WHY I MAKE IT

I don’t trust insignificant moments. They have a habit of becoming important later. That’s the strange thing about memory…we spend so much time focusing on the big birthday celebration, trips, beginnings, endings.

But what actually stays with us?

Someone laughing in the kitchen, the walk home, my friend’s weird hat, the stranger at the bar, the five minutes before something changed.

I draw those things because making them physical feels
like proof—yes, I was there. Yes, apparently the hat mattered.

The connection

I want you to recognize something that you technically couldn’t recognize. You maybe haven’t walked down the same street or were at the same party. And you definitely weren’t invited. Yet something about it feels familiar.

I’ve had people look at my drawings before and tell me, “It feels like I’ve seen this in a dream.” They weren’t there, but somehow, they remember it. My night, my trip, my friend became theirs too.

My world

My work examines everything from architecture to portraiture through an illustrative lens. There’s one thing they all have in common: they’re worth noticing.

Exploring a city without an itinerary, restaurants where the night was better than the food, people behaving badly in beautiful places, the picture you almost deleted. Especially the picture you almost deleted.

These moments worth noticing are everywhere. They normally happen when you least expect it. But they’re within you as much as they’re within me. In fact, they BECOME you. And with every new piece, I realize how they’ve already become me. And that’s why you can’t spell Mary without ART!