During April 2022, I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to hang my art up at a local music venue and community bar, Phog Lounge. I got to feature and create many pieces throughout the month, and sold many of the pieces you see here. My favourite was called “Y’all ever think about life,” because I wanted to take the viewer on a visual journey of my life, feel the things I felt while facing hardships in my life. This is the heavily-emphasized blue piece that can be looked at upside down or right side up and gives you a different story depending on how it looks. 

ART SHOWCASE at Phog

A local band named Dagobah Green reached out to me as an upcoming artist, and asked me to create a cover for their song, “On the Rocks,” (available on all streaming platforms). The process behind the creation of this cover was fun because I listened to the song on repeat until I felt the creation of the scene, so the cover of the song is inspired by the song itself. Following that, I created a cover for my own song, “SLUT!” by Batoolio ft. Cons of Jupiter (also available on all streaming platforms), and once I published that, another local artist named Notromeo commissioned me to create the cover for his song, “Kickin Rocks,”. The last example of my work within my local music scene is a draft of some merch I created for Cons of Jupiter. These were limited in their run, hand-painted, and sold out within 15 minutes of their display. My artistic feats are heavily inspired by music, so to be able to make connections within my local music community and become a part of it, as well, is something I’m very grateful for. 

Song Covers and Merch

As an artist who uses art to express myself and cope with my own hardships, I wanted to pass this tool along to the youth in my community. In 2018 I begun my pursuit in a career of Mental Health and Addictions, and am now heavily involved within the social services in my community. In Summer 2021, I worked as Summer staff at a local youth centre, Noah’s House Mental Health Foundation, where I was put in charge of running our Arts and Crafts program. I wanted this program to be different, so the activities I came up with were oft inspired by different artistic techniques I was inspired by in my own personal life. This was such a success that the program has now been running for one year. 

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