About Me

Growing up, being an artist was hard. I’m the only artist in my family, and being raised in a Jewish environment, an art career isn’t exactly the most sought-after profession. But that never stopped me.   My whole life art has been my way to truly express myself and articulate my feelings in ways words can’t. As I grew, so did my choice of media. As a self-taught artist, if I am attracted to something new that I don’t know how to do, such as crocheting, my first instinct is always that I need to learn how to do it. When learning a new skill, I take risks and challenge myself to accomplish my goal. When I crocheted my first blanket, I was not familiar with a project of that size and the pattern was harder, but I pushed through, failed a few times, and ended up with a beautiful piece. I bring this same ambition into my animation, I love trying new things and learning new techniques that I can later bring into my own work. My artistic process begins with personal inspiration, often from my immediate surroundings and life experience. For example, my favorite painting of mine, depicting a young girl being enveloped by Jewish writing, was influenced by my religious upbringing and the joy I experience coming together in song on the holidays. During one of the holidays, the Rabbi of my temple blew a ram’s horn to signify the new year. When the horn was blown, I felt enveloped in its sound. From that moment, I knew I had to come up with a piece that captured the feeling of not only the shofar being blown but the feeling of singing and dancing with my Jewish community. My head began flooding with ideas that later turned into my favorite painting. I was able to perfectly capture how I feel about my identity through my art, and to me that’s magical.   I find that my work reflects who I am as a person in a very subtle way. I’m a very 
imaginative, quirky, and sometimes all-around weird person, and I try to bring that out in my art. I love magic, I love fantasy, and I love making people smile, and that’s what drives me to create.