Growing up in rural Northern Lower Michigan, my reverence for animals and nature shows through in most of my creative work. My passion for art developed alongside my passion for animals.My personal goal is to help diversify the kinds of characters that get depicted in visual media. I loved watching cartoons as a child (and still do). Seeing characters who looked like or represented something about me, was such a crucial experience growing up and I want to be able to give other people that kind of visual representation in innovative and creative ways. ​"If you don't see yourself represented in a medium, get to work."-unknown