To ask me why I create is equivalent to asking me why I breathe, I simply must. I can’t live if I don’t breathe, and I can’t live if I don’t create, so I create. It flows through my body and out through my hand. But like breathing, creating is not always easy. Sometimes I get scared and can only pant because I am scared of what people might think of me. But when I truly allow myself to breathe it comes out as a hum or a song, a whistle, or even sometimes a scream. When I get scared my creativity is limited, but when I permit myself to be creative I can bare the essence of who I am through my art. Many of my art pieces and characters are an extension of who I am and allow me to be myself. This is why I am in the field of animation, to breathe life into something that has none, to find myself and lose myself, to exist in a world of silence, to evoke a feeling in others, to know myself. Animation is more than merely a sequence of drawings; it is a sequence of emotion that has manifested. Even though my animation is a visual medium, I strive to create art that connects with my audiences’ souls rather than their eyes. I invite anyone that will to come on this journey of knowing how I breathe whether it be a hum or a pant, to embrace that, and to simply breathe.