(Always In Progress) Artist Statement

As a budding children's book illustrator, I figured I should start tailoring my illustrator's artist statement a little bit more to my specific goals... Before it more or less referred my illustration goals in general: advertising, book, or editorial...:

We are so often negatively influenced by manipulative media.

Consumer culture inundates us with visual and verbal subconscious messages,

and an overwhelming amount of them are harmful, demeaning, unnerving, and flat out wrong.

My personal brand of visual communication can innovate media’s molding of society.

As an illustrator, I have the power to improve the quality of published and projected images.

Through my work, I want to revolutionize the way we, as human beings, currently see the world and ourselves.

My dream is to be a children’s book illustrator.

Through children’s books, my work will influence the young generations’ lessons and fantasies. The ways in which I have understood my world will feed others’ perspectives, and then be passed down through families in book form.

My visual messages and narratives will form and mold young minds, positively impacting society.

I strive for my work to express my vision. I am not merely drawing or painting; instead, I am exercising powerful visual language. In addition, integrity is forever present in my vision and what I illustrate. My life goal is to be an honest illustrator, ever conscious of and judicious with my work’s psychological effects on viewers.

I have the power to manipulate people, but I choose to use this power to educate and to tell truths.