“I am passionate about art because it gives me the freedom to create, and I think that that’s really special about artists: you rarely ever destroy and you’re almost always creating, and even if you are destroying something it’s for the purpose of creating something else. I actually only got into art a few years ago. It was a really, really late thing, like I know a lot of people who have been doing it since they were five. I only started at the end of seventh grade. It was during the summer and I just had some pencils: it was always something I had enjoyed, but then I had a lot of time on my hands and I started to draw, and I ended up falling in love with it, and now I do it all the time.  I particularly like to use charcoal and traditional media like paint and I think that there’s something very special about using your hands to create things in a classical and traditional way. A goal of mine is to transform the way we look at hand skilled art because I think in the past few years it’s been slowly diminishing in value. A lot of the art we see now doesn’t take fine art hand skills: it’s graphic, and it’s just a different type of art. It’s not worse, but I think that there is something magical about hand skilled art that I would like to bring back, and my goal is to use hand skilled art but display it in a way that’s public and accessible, almost like street art but more fine tuned, like well curated street art.”