Canine training is a passion of mine and being that I am apart of a service dog team grows that passion. My teammates name is Rocky Balboa and he is a Staffordshire Terrier, I've had him since he was weaned off his mom in November of 2018.  Rocky has drastically improved my quality of life before him life after the military was hard.  I found myself having trouble wanting to get out of the bed, leaving my house and trusting myself in my surroundings.  Since Rocky and I have became a team I have someone who makes me get out of bed in the morning, he makes sure I take my medication and when I'm out he keeps me in check.  That looks different in every situation but it has helped me and given me hope.  

I am also a multimedia artist and I use my human experience as the focus of my art practice, the good, the bad and the struggles in between.  I use my art to bring representation to those who have the same skin color as me, those who have struggled in many different areas.  I equally use my art practice as fuel in my creative process to heal, in doing so it gives me the courage to push the limits of many mediums and incorporate both conventional and unconventional methods of application to convey feeling.  I attempt to take viewers on a journey though not only my healing process but pieces of the journey that lead me to need that healing.  In that I also have to give myself the freedom to create freely and that is where my resin, paper and vinyl art are given the chance to truly bloom.  It is a welcomed break from healing and gives me space and time to sit and truly feel what the healing has done for me.  In working in a number of mediums as the days progress I try to experience and explore more because while pain knows no limits I strive for my art practices and pieces to know the same.  From photography, resin, clay, oil and yarn to plaster and concrete I am given a multitude of different setting times, workability, textures to not only convey different feelings but take others on a journey of healing.