Short Answer: Starting August 2025!

Long Answer: Soon I am starting “The Crate of Curious Things” which I pitched through my latter highschool years as a mobile upcycling art workshop business, and part of the revamped business model includes private lessons! https://www.crateofcuriousthings.org/studio-o

Short Answer: It depends... do I like you?

Long Answer: Because I believe art is best made without the incentive of money: if I don’t want to make it, I don’t. Therefore I tend to only complete commissions for friends, family, and people I’ve met in person. Mainly so that I can hand-deliver the items and see their excited reactions firsthand. Honestly the most rewarding part of any project is that reaction, and if I don’t have it at the end, most projects simply aren’t worth it.

Short Answer: Whatever I’m in the mood to make.

Long Answer: I aim to design either a meaningful decoration or a practical product each time I create. I am often irked by purposeless art, however I understand art is sometimes more about the process than the result. Crayons, for example. I love ‘em, but I use them for fun, not for finesse.

Short Answer: To bring joy.

Long Answer: Art is a process to be enjoyed by the artists, and the results are to be enjoyed by others. Rather than make a rigorous career out of art, I choose to make what I enjoy making, when I want to make it, for whomever I want to make it. The goal beyond myself though, is to share my love of art and healthy creativity so as to inspire others of things greater than my own imagination.

Short Answer: Cardboard, mostly.

Long Answer: I make most of my projects out of on-hand repurposed materials (becuase I'm cheap). Most commonly: cardboard and paperboard (and yes, I absolutely raid Aldi’s occasionally for their boxes). To stick it all together I use copious amounts of hot glue after painting parts with Apple Barrel acrylics (Y’know, the fifty cent tubes from Walmart- that are now fifty eight cents). I'm excited to experiment with combining cardboard and new mediums during my experience in Indiana Wesleyan University's art department.

Short Answer: He gone for now..

Long Answer: I’ve had a very back and forth and back and forth (and back and forth) perception of social media. Currently, I have a BlueSky account under @cardboard-enthused (because “Cardboard Enthusiast” was too long) and am planning content ideas for an @Cardboard_Enthusiast Instagram account. I think it’d be more doable to limit the social media usage to sharing my love of cardboard, instead of every artistic endeavor I may partake in. I could do fun cardboard things like an “I’m bored… CARD board…” segment and cereal ratings and box backstories, etc. Plenty of fun ideas to just be hilariously obsessed with cardboard.

Short Answer: Yep!

Long Answer: I also enjoy music, games, reading and writing. I will confidently say I am best known game-wise for playing Bananagrams (I have all 18 versions, the tote bag, hat, shirt, and pins), but I dabble in a number of cardboard games such as MTG and HermitCraft TCG. I do quite a bit of writing for this website, but also personally. I haven’t met a lot of people who enjoy writing essays, but I’m one of them, which has proven to be a blessing in college.

Short Answer: The art BY FAR

Long Answer: I believe through my art I can bring joy to the lives of others, and impact them in a bigger way than I ever could imagine. I am SO MUCH more excited about the art than any glory attached. There is the small problem of: If people don’t know about you, how will you share your message? So I do need to gain that platform to share my message. But as long as I create beyond physical things, and I can impact emotions, then my goal is accomplished.

Short Answer: Remain an Avid Communicator and Cardboard Enthusiast.

Long Answer: While my career plans and goals are constantly fluxuating, my general concensus on my future tends to involve art, music, active living, and communications in some form. Whether I sing, play the guitar, or just listen to music; whether I sell art, teach lessons, or just do it on the side; whether I play a sport, learn martial arts, or just do home calisthenics; and whether I become an executive, HR, or assistant, all of these aspects I hope to keep up by ever-changing means.