This work started without an idea or plan and came straight from my hands. I wanted to create a representation of what it's like to be different, to be young, and to be conflicted. I concern myself with the reality of my own existence, within this I find myself questioning the purpose of reality frequently during the creative process. Being hyper-aware of my mortality is my reason to make art, I feel that perhaps after death my artwork will live beyond me and my existence is experienced by people I won’t meet and in places I won’t visit…