Where are you from? I spent my early childhood in an outdoorsy mountainous town (Evergreen) outside of Denver, CO, before moving to Seattle, WA as I entered high school. The first few years of my twenties I spent in Seattle after graduating from the University of Washington. I’m now living and working in Chicago.
Can you tell us about your background and what led you down the path to becoming an artist and ultimately experimenting with NFTs? I first knew I wanted to be an artist at 5 years old (my mom is an artist, and a handful of my extended family were artists, which was a significant inspiration to me early on). I won the Cherry Creek Arts Festival for a piece I had submitted around 5 years old, which was probably validating to my child self, too. As I entered my high school years, I let go of that desire and fell victim to “doing the right thing” — as a college student, I studied communications and business marketing in an effort to get a steady job…