• the Fantastic Life collection •

     This project started with a cat. Specifically, my roommate Brody's cat Odin— a creature I've come to love genuinely over the past couple years. I had drawn Brody a portrait of Odin for his birthday, and animating that drawing in class unlocked a process I didn't know I was looking for.

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     What I ended up discovering was a loop. I'd draw something by hand, bring it into Procreate or another digital space and draw over it again, then pull it into Photoshop and push it through filters, distortions, color shifts, than throw it into an AI and ask it to fuck with it. I'd save each version as a frame. Then I'd print that frame back out, put it on paper, and draw on it again with my hands. Bring it back in. Repeat.

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     What comes out the other side doesn't look like where it started. It accumulates — layers of analog and digital touching each other until the image becomes something in between. The glitch isn't just an effect, it's what happens naturally when you keep putting something through a process that was never meant to loop.

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     The subjects I kept returning to were living beings. Men, animals, and this series pushes further with multiple pieces with women as the subject (to be upoaded). All just creatures existing. I called the collection the Fantastic Life because that's what I kept thinking about. the strange, ordinary miracle of being alive and moving through the world.

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     The page on my site says "still loading..." intentional... as I think my fantastic life is doing exactly that.