1. In what ways is your work inspired or informed?

​My work is inspired by popular culture because I’m interested in different kinds of architecture. I’m inspired by the form and design of buildings. I am more drawn to the creative aspect of it then the technical engineering aspect, although I do enjoy trying to figure out how to build and support my own artistic structures. I am also inspired by events from my childhood.

2. Which art movement do you feel a kinship to?

I believe my artwork is informed Modernism. Artworks created in Modernist style have a tendency towards abstraction and fantasy. The works also tend to use new and differing materials. With modernist pieces, the audience has to take a closer look in order to really understand it.

​3. What contemporary artist inspires you?​

​Rose Skinner: She is an amazing installation artist, and her artwork inspires me to want to do installation. Her work draws me in because it is completely whimsical and child-like. Everything about her installations creates a new world for the viewer to walk into and explore. She incorporates so many details in her work that it makes the viewer take more time to explore and involve themselves in the pieces.

​4. Who else do you feel has informed your artwork?

I am also inspired by Dr. Suess. Not only am I drawn to a lot of the messages that his stories portray, but I am inspired by his fantasy forms. His creations tend toward the whimsical, and are truly abstracted forms of buildings.

​5. Overall, how would you describe your work's content?

One reoccurring theme in my artwork is houses. I think that I originally was drawn to the architectural aspect. As I began making more of them they turned into representations of childhood. I wanted to create houses that showed different childhood beliefs of what the world is like. I decided to completely change the inside to build up a contrast between the way that children view different aspects of life, with what we realize the world is really like as we age. I think that most people lose the sense of wonder and imagination that everyone has as a child. I want my art to reconnect the viewers with their more imaginative and blissful ways of thinking, to show what they might have lost through the process of aging.

​6. Point out to us, the viewers, how and where we might find clues to your content.

Each house represents an aspect of childhood. The inside of the houses are a much different atmosphere. They reflect the opposite idea than the exterior; what the topic is truly like in the "real world."

​7. What do you still really want to try with your artwork?

I still want to play with the surface of my pieces. I usually pain them with acrylics, but I want to experiment with different things to get varying surface texture.

​8. Would you describe your work as "a coherent body of work?"

​​Yes I would, I have created many houses that all display different aspects of childhood, or have a whimsical feel.

​9. What do you think your artwork will look like in a year?

​It may be the same scale or even bigger, or I may decide to go the opposite and work very small. It may also expand into many different aspects of childhood and children's views of the world.