In the past I’ve struggled with getting photoshoots going. Recently I’ve just tried loosening the grip and trying more spontaneous photo shoots.

Just seeing if the people around me will not only model but also do the photography. I like the idea of getting different perspectives in the photos and I feel like other photographers can bring different things out of people. I think it’s a way to give props and credit to other people and make the process more fun.

I still like directing people as a photographer, but I also am excited and grateful about the results I’ve been getting lately.

The hoodie collab project with Orlando is going on an interesting direction and I’m looking forward to continuing to develop it.

I got these sweatpants online thinking that they would be cotton, they turned out to be polyester. Last night I was printing on them with water based ink. I like how they turned out.

As I was making this design I started thinking of bengal tigers

“…Night Moves” 2024 11x17” mixed media on paper - screen printing, water color, gouache, colored pencils, acrylic, brush pen

This is the second part of the series. I wanted to make pieces about disassociation and the idea of occupying spaces that are ungrounded. I felt like it would have been easier to make something that was about depicting the disconnect, turmoil, or ambiguity of some of the sensations related to disassociating. But I wanted to make something more optimistic, for my own sake, and that was more challenging for my imagination.

I thought of a character and wanted to incorporate imagery t hat was more about getting clues that lead towards being more in the body, grounded, and more engaged with life. Doing that and learning more about how to use the watercolors and gouache.

11x17” mixed media on paper 2024

-watercolor, screen printing, gouache, and colored pencils on paper

This piece is called “Holdovers…”

It’s part of a pair that’s about having the experience of disassociation but moving through it in a positive way. I wanted the pieces to be sort of dream like and have elements that are attractive. The birds are sort of an anchor or reminder that the character wants freedom and to not be burdened by aspects of the past.

I think this one will happen this year

Realizing that I can use hand drawn patterns to make interesting designs. Sometimes it’s about the color ways.

Working on making something every day

I’ve been practicing making repeat patterns by warping digital line work I make. Often I create textures from my photography and I just want different techniques in my wheel house. I dig the color combos on this design and just how the lines draw my eye in different directions in sort of a casual manner. To me it’s sort of retro and future-y at the same time.

June 18th 2024

I’ve posted a lot of designs just to my Instagram stories and it’s time to change it up. For a while I’ve realized that I should post on my own website first, then socials. What usually happens is that I’m in a hurry and I’ll set the poster to hit IG and forget to post to my blog. With AI scrapping going on it reminds me to invest in my own blog before sharing to socials. I really enjoy my fashion design sketches and I think it’s time to treat them better.

I spent some of this Sunday generating different kinds of Labels that I could attach to my clothing. Recently I was at a market and an artist showed me a label from a brand from Mexico. The label was an illustration of a whole scene playing out between two characters. That inside label let me know that there is a whole world of possibilities open to adding narrative to pieces and using details to make things more interesting. These designs are not in the lane of narrative labels, but I wanted to practice some more of the standard of label design generation.

Recently I found out about ai training on social media, so I’ll be posting more to my blog more