In this body of work, I explore visual themes of repetition, growth, and movement to create a surreal narrative of my college career. As a versatile artist, I love to experiment with a variety of different art forms to convey my stories and messages. As such, the work in my show is split between multiple different mediums.

Through my years of drawing, glassblowing, and designing at Salisbury University, I have composed this body of work filled with ideas, emotions, and perspectives that I have picked up from my time at college. When I first began my studies here, I knew I wanted to be an artist that worked with people. Since the day I turned eighteen, I have been pursuing my career as a tattoo artist. This field of art has greatly inspired my body of work as I originally started tattooing in the summer of 2022, right before I began my college career.

My college career was split into two main sections. The first section of time was more difficult and isolated. During this time, I was at my lowest in life only going outside to go to class or eat. While I was dealing with this rough part of my life, I found solace in nature and the little bit of life I would view outside on my walks. Countlessly, I would look around canvas and see flowers bloom after the rain. This theme of growth in nature is what inspired me to make forty-eight glass blown flowers. Each glass-blown flower represents one month of growth throughout my forty-eight months in college.

In the latter two years of my college career, I found myself obsessed with people, constantly wanting to surround myself with another person's voice, ideas, and emotion. These years have been filled with movement, repetition, personal growth, and most importantly people of all different kinds and varieties. Without my family, friends, professors, and peers I would not have grown to become the man I am today. They are what has inspired the softer and less chaotic drawings on the right side of my exhibition.

In the center of the exhibition are my pattern-based design prints. These digital drawings are all designs I created over the last year and a half. They incorporate my signature pattern style that I have crafted since I started drawing in elementary school. My prints are small in terms of size but are still packed with detail. When I work with mediums like pen and paper or paint on canvas, my pattern designs flow and are more spontaneous. I know exactly where each line and shape needs to go and can work around anything I draw. Digitally, these patterns become more purposeful, taking a much longer and thorough amount of time.

The time it takes me to make this work is important to me because only through hard work and dedication did I get any better at drawing. I was not born talented, but with passion. I still have a full career in art ahead of me, but while I pursue my passions in tattooing, I will only continue to grow further as an artist.