Growing up, my life was always revolving on whatever schedule I had signed up for at the time. I was involved in gymnastics and cheerleading for as long as I can remember. Eventually, I was in competitive cheer, and I had picked up travel softball during that time as well. I played softball all through high school, keeping up with travel during the summers. When college began I started to focus on my studies much more, while trying out multiple jobs until I began working weddings. When Covid-19 hit, my life changed drastically. At the time, I was working at both Savoir Fare and the USDA as a student lab assistant, and both shut down. There were no events to work and the government had sent all employees home to work remotely. After a couple months, they cut all student positions. I had never spent such a miserable amount of time alone with nothing to look forward to. I wanted so badly to be anywhere other than my house, and I feel like a lot of us can relate to that through the pandemic. I started painting in attempt to let my mind take me to a different place. It was really an escape for me at that point; I had always loved drawing and painting but I had never relied on it for my sanity in a way. From there, as life returned to normal, I continued to shift my schedule to take whatever classes would land me in the art department or studio. I see more beauty in the world now that I’ve learned all about how to create it and what to look for in what is already surrounding me, and I can’t keep myself from imagining a million new things I want to create each day. Letting art change my view on life has filled me with inspiration and I want to do my best to explore that and share it with as many people as possible.