'I had a pretty clean and simple childhood. I was raised in the suburbs about an hour outside of Los Angeles, which was borderline mundane, at best. The suburbs are pretty lackluster, which I think helped spark my creativity. I have two older (half, but still complete) sisters and a younger brother.
I was a pretty bizarre kid, really talkative and spacey. As I grew up, I wasn’t into many of the extracurriculars my peers took on, especially in high school, so I found other things to occupy my time. I pretty consistently took art classes outside of my school. And I slept a lot. I was on the swim team at my high school for a couple years and was on a grueling schedule, morning practice, then after-school practice, home to do homework, eat dinner with my family, and pass out from exhaustion. Senior year, I abandoned all superfluous extracurriculars and worked at a yoga studio and gave my mind some much-needed restoration. Up until that point, I think I was a dreamer. I knew I wanted to be a creative, but I just wasn’t sure I had the capacity. The adventurous side of my personality took flight after I arrived in San Francisco and saw a thriving art community that the suburbs were severely lacking, which gave me the motivation to get me movin’ and shakin’.' |