“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

 

A question I’ve always seemed unable to definitively answer. Has anyone actually been able to answer that question and if so, are they living the lives they had intended? 

 

Being born and raised in New York City comes with the automatic expectation that you strive to excel. In the second grade, I became the solo illustrator for our class book regarding our surrounding Upper West Side neighborhood. It was then, with hand cramps,

I realized that I had a penchant for something that others desired. So I ran fast with it.

 

I continued to draw, illustrate, capture, create and construct throughout Middle School and Fine Arts High School. Fiercely independent and seriously determined, I ventured off to a new city alone to attend the School of The Art Institute of Chicago for college, where I was first introduced to Graphic Design and Visual Communications.

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I've stumbled, gotten back up on my feet, in the process, I've learned, failed, triumphed, burned out and gathered both the awful and the great from each experience. But just because you’ve become good at something does that mean it is exactly what you should be doing. If it drives you and feeds your passion...yes.I have a responsibility to myself to pursue the the challenges  the challenges and obstacles

I may encounter. 

 

A top accomplishment? Learning to know myself well enough to realize when its time for a new challenge.

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I've navigated large agencies for years. The challenge now is to take the learnings I've acquired and put them to work in smaller fast growing creative spaces, using everything I have to elevate them  

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My internal fire drives me to make an impact with my work, forces others to think, see and feel differently. This is achieved by creating work which speaks with a clear, visually focused, self understood point of view - one that usually comes from navigating through a sometimes treacherous journey. 

 

So, what do you do when you still feel like you’re growing up? 

Keep growing.