Artist's Statement

Artists Statement

On a practical level, as an artist, I lean towards post production and video editing. Through editing, you can make bad footage into a beautiful product, or good footage into a bad final product. It is such an artful medium that takes such a creative eye, but is also so simple in a way. On a creative level, a large part of my inspiration for my own work is drawn from my personal experiences; moving to New York and living on my own at a young age, trying to find myself as an artist and a person. I am fully aware that this specific narrative has already been told countess times. My goal is to find a way to tell it again in a unique and creative way, bypassing the usual cliches while remaining true to my own story. As an editor especially but in all part of filmmaking, it can be used as a way to romanticize your own life. Every day on my morning commute I imagine how I could make it into a beautiful montage. Every boring, unfortunate, exciting, or inconvenient moment of my life I imagine how it would play out in a scene and contribute to the larger plot. I am very drawn to the idea of narrative. I want to take the story of my own life, cut away the parts I don’t like, and turn my own life experiences into a perfect, digestible narrative to be displayed proudly to the rest of the world.