Growing up, one of my favorite things to do was visit my grandma’s house down the street. She subscribed to nearly every entertainment and fashion magazine imaginable.
After reading them, she’d stack them by the door for me to devour the moment I arrived.
I’d sit on the floor for hours, poring over each issue. My favorites were the high-fashion editorials in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
The intricately designed sets and artful outfits captivated me—fashion that felt more like art. I daydreamed about the surreal worlds I saw on those pages, imagining what I could create.
I went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Apparel and Textile Design, where an avant-garde and unconventional curriculum deepened my draw to the beautiful, unusual, and otherworldly.
Yet for a long time, I didn’t consider myself an artist—until I discovered AI as a method for creating art.
Through AI, I found a way to bring the dreamlike worlds I had imagined to life. While I couldn’t physically build these larger-than-life scenes, I could generate them as vivid imagery.
Over the past two years, I’ve honed my skills with AI and taught myself a dozen tools to bring my ideas to fruition. I even created my own magazine for my Ethereal Encounters series.
Today, I still have a few boxes of my grandma’s magazines—treasured possessions that have moved with me from high school to college, and from Michigan to Chicago.
They remain a constant source of inspiration.
In the future, I envision collaborating with other designers, working with brands I’ve admired, and creating beautiful pieces that people use to adorn their lives and homes.
And one day, I hope to see my own work grace the pages—digital and physical—of the magazines that first sparked my imagination.
