This probably started with a character I drew as an elementary school kid: Chip.

Then in 2011, I did a series of “silly animals” in unusual situations with funny captions.

This particular iteration started in 2023 when I felt far away from my creativity and desperately wanted to feel close again. I was processing a lot. In some ways I was still healing from brain surgery the year prior, and I was in a very challenging environment. I had just received two other diagnoses and started depth therapy with an incredible therapist.

These drawings were an attempt to reconnect with myself, but also to figure out how to let myself out. For so much of my life I felt trapped inside. Sitting at my sketchbook, I kept coming back to the prompt: what’s true right now?

The most current version of this work is my daily project, which I am posting on Instagram.