I’m very open about my traumatic brain injury in 2003. I have shared that my art is a direct response to this trauma. Living with it is a daily thing and I will carry its aftermath until I die. What I have not been explicit about is my business being the only feasible course of action to build a career that can financially sustain me the rest of my life.

2023 has been a year of incredible challenge for me. I was badly rear ended in January 2023, resulting in back problems from my coccyx up to my jaw (I was diagnosed with lock jaw/TMJ at the ER the next day) as well as a wrist injury that STILL 9 months later hasn’t healed.