 People have looked at my pieces and they're like, that's cool, and then they have this face where they go, is that it? And then they run across the room and go look at it, and they're like, wait, this is all made out with all the words, oh my god, I can read this, I can see this. So there's kind of like this extra layer of people's appreciation, I guess. Like a secret bonus, I don't know. My name is Kierli and I'm an artist. I use lyrics or quotes or writings to create portraits in the pornoism format, instead of using dots, I use the letters. I guess I'm gonna just call it like a portrait artist, I don't really know. I'm an artist, I don't know, I'm an artist, the end. As an only child, my mom was not a fan of me watching television, so I was like the kid that wasn't really allowed to watch TV but was constantly given like coloring books and art supplies, and because I had no siblings, I just colored all day, so I just always loved art. I went to art school and when I was in art history, I didn't have like a professor that was very entertaining, so we would have to take notes and at the end of the class turn your notes in, and I started to doodle my notes and create different patterns, so that makes me a sense. And it just kind of evolved from that, and then I would turn in like flowers and turn in like animals and they were all notes, and my professor probably thought I was a lunatic, but they kind of just sprung from that. I actually usually work in very large scale pieces, my biggest being six by eight feet, but when I work, I will sketch out the subjects, sometimes I will start by spray painting the actual canvas and then see like what I feel like fits onto that, it just kind of depends on my mood. So depending on which stage I start at, I will finish the spray, resin it, go back to my sketch, blow it up to whatever size I need, transfer it over, and then it usually takes anywhere from a day to a week to do the actual finalism, and I freehand all of it, so the only sketching I do is just the outline of the subject and then everything else I just freehand. And then I resin it again, and then that's it, and then you get one of these. And then somewhere in there is my signature hidden. The way I choose my words is if I'm doing like a large scale piece, like an album, if it's a certain album I'm doing, or sometimes I can fit all of them, like my Mac Jagger piece, which is eight feet high, I can fit 99% of the Rolling Stones lyrics in it, which is pretty awesome. And so it just kind of depends, it's hard when I have to choose because sometimes there's not enough canvas space for as many lyrics as I want to include, so it just depends. Sometimes I make like a random spelling error and I'm like, shit, I really hope no one ever sees that because it's really embarrassing. But I kind of can gain a feel once I start how much I can fit, so I'll either like just focus on the chorus of the song, or just focus on a couple of the lines that I really admire. I have my moments where I'm like, damn it, I can't fit all of it. Okay, I'll just add a little more right here, or write a little smaller. If I'm doing a musician, I always listen to his music, kind of just set the tone. I have to be really careful what I listen to because I've caught myself doing the Beatles and I'll start doing the song that I'm listening to and I'm like, shit, well it's still the Beatles, so that's okay. The most difficult part is the major hand cramping that happens. Sometimes I'm writing for like six hours straight and my hand will stop working. I'm going to have the most massive carpal tunnel when I get older. The hardest thing for me is this. If I could just like not show my face and just like hide and just like push art out and see people like it, I'd be completely happy when I can't do that. So I started to show my friends a little bit like, do you think this is cool? Like, does this suck? And they're like, that's really cool, who did that? I'm like, I did, is it like bad? Now I'm okay with it, but I still have moments of insecurity. But I feel like now I'm more like, well I like it, so fuck it if they like it or not. There you go, take it or leave it. Like I feel like every person has an urge to do something creative. I feel like it's like part of being just a balanced person. I feel like it keeps people happy, it keeps people feeling like they accomplished something. I mean you can sew a quilt and it would look like complete shit when you finished it, but you feel like accomplished. Like I made that and it's ugly, but I made that. I feel like it's just like helping for the soul. I think that everyone should create. Like even if you want to be an artist, you should just create. If you have an urge to create, you should create. I feel like anyone that just loves what they do, it comes off in their work. I feel like you can tell if something's forced or you can tell if that person just loves to do that. So just keep doing it. If you have to get a job to support it, just do it. At least you're trying, at least you're making an effort, at least you're getting that want to create. Ow, I don't think you should store it, I don't think you should stop creating. I think people should be creative until they die. I feel rewarded. I worry that I'm going to have to learn to use my left hand wider in life. But I do, I love it. I wouldn't trade it for anything.