I was always drawn to visual arts as a child due to having a early childhood diagnoses in acquired speech apraxia. Doctors told my mother the physical and educational limitations her child would have, but her determination to prove the professionals wrong taught me how a strong work ethic looks. With limited words and through therapy, I found visuals to represent the words I was unable to speak to those I cared deeply for.

After years, my speech recovered and I began to prove the doctor’s limitations originally placed on me as wrong. Photography drew my attention whenever I reached the eighth grade whenever my friend challenged me to try a new hobby through a depression stage of my life, and she suggested using her camera for a photoshoot.

That day I realized my purpose, to share the power of self love through images. It took years of learning and developing the art that I realized photography had the power to communicate deep things like I had sought my entire life as a child with speech apraxia.