My life has been shaped by constant movement—growing up with multiple relocations across the U.S., from the East Coast to the Midwest to the West. Each place was a new beginning, where I had to navigate the feeling of being "new" all over again. Art became a kind of refuge and a language I could carry with me from one place to the next. It was always there as a default home, and it allowed me to process the world I was experiencing. For me, every place I've lived in or visited holds its own… more