ManicWorld Magazine

– Do you know why you have been inspired by space and the universe lately?

I love the mystery behind space, and if you think about it, we are made from the same fundamental stuff as space. I spend time on NASA’s nebula photo archives just admiring all the cool photos. Alot of my inspiration comes from the website. I can’t believe all these galaxies, planets, and nebulas are up there and in such high quality. It is forever my inspiration. I like to think that maybe the planets were like earth once but either froze or just became too hot due to the Sun’s distance. We will never know.

– What parts of yourself are you hoping to share through your art?

I hope to share my heart, the idea to look within, and have fun. Art has helped me process a lot of things good/bad in a meditative way, and I want to encourage everyone to create in some way or form because of this. Art has taught me to accept every part of myself with flaws and all, to forgive myself and others, to not take life too seriously and to have fun, to create the life and art you want with no rules, without labels. Many of us look outside of ourselves to heal or to seek something in life when all we got to do is look within with zero judgement, approach, and celebrate everything about ourselves including your emotions. You’ll realize how amazing you are.

– What goes through your mind as you stare at the blank canvas?

I mostly meditate a few feet apart from my canvas, I will sit down in a cross-legged position and close my eyes, I like to clear all the hustle and bustle from my day first and tell myself “I let go of everything and everyone for the day” Sometimes I have  singing bowls playing in the background to enhance the experience. I simply sit patiently until my mind sort of guides me and puts out a strong visualizer. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t. I don’t rush it, I trust that an image will materialize before me. All my work are strong visuals I received while meditating throughout the years and as soon as I see a vision I must work fast on sketching it or I’ll kind of forget the details after a few minutes.

– If someone drew your essence out of your body and put it on a wall, what would it look like?

Wow, I’ve never been asked this haha! I think it probably would be like a pink sky like cotton candy at golden hour, with pink clouds and glitter falling everywhere, maybe a fruit jungle, I’m picturing mangoes, kiwis, watermelons, bananas with a coconut milk river flowing through mountains of buttered toast.