 Artists have a lot to teach us, like we can really learn a lot from the artists because they have a whole different way of interfacing with reality and with culture. For me, the real driving factor behind the art that I make is the creative experience itself. Just this whole the agony and the ecstasy and the discovery and the success and the failure, but this whole the arc and the journey. Reflecting upon the patterns that I see and the patterns that I find within myself and within the people around me, a lot of my pieces kind of reflect on this dark and light duality and you know how one wouldn't exist without the other and how you learn so much from the darkness. The best photos are the ones where they have no idea that I'm there. I'm in love with both the children and the elders. They are the bookends. They are, I want to bring them more in, so this is my honoring. What I hope is that I can bring something back that's valuable for people to map out that emotional content because we all have all of these emotions in us. We have joy and grief and sadness and happiness and we all experience them. We have a thousand stories around how we experience them, but they're all very similar.