Painting has been in my bones since I was a kid — it just took me a PhD, six years in tech, and a long stretch of trying to be other things first to come back to it.

I'm not on the other side of any of it. I have a dog who's not the brightest and a painting in the studio right now I keep calling 'demon lady' because it's fighting me. That's the work, and I'd rather show it to you than pretend otherwise.