The Artist Behind the Odd
In May of 2020 I had just walked away from what I thought was going to be my longtime career and trying to cope with the way the world was outside my own four walls. During the time at home, I struggled with depression and anxiety while being a homeschool teacher to a 2nd grader and dealing with the aftermath of not only walking away from my career but trying to handle all of the ways that job had actually negatively affected me mentally and emotionally on a professional and personal level. Needless to say, 2020 was a tough year. From the time I was a child I always had a passion for art that followed me throughout my entire school career. Suddenly, that began to fade when I became an adult. Life happened and I lost the love that I had for it. this website all started because of a simple conversation with family about internet trolls and what their opposites would look like. For the first time in a long time, I felt inspired. I had not picked up a paintbrush in over 10 years and I painted what I thought was the most ridiculous, but one of the funniest things I've ever created. It was something I was proud of. inside I felt so much joy at creating something that was my own. It turned out even better than I had envisioned (Posted in the gallery) and so I decided to keep going and the more I made the more I was pushed to share it with the world. I realized along the way that there really is no wrong way to create art. It is what you make of it. Embrace the weird and enjoy the oddities of the world and the things you can add to it.