Music was my gate-way drug to art. Since I can remember, everytime I listened to music I really loved, my mind would create vivid images and place that song in a setting where it made sense. I loved creating and living in these imaginary moments of space and eventually found a creative outlet through Photoshop to actually translate them into a physical space. Having no prior experience with art, I had to use YouTube videos to better my understanding, which is still a process I am going through today. Teaching myself, I maneuvered through the program and started realizing how complex an "artistic-vision" really was and how much I really didn't have it. That's when I started to create my aesthetic. At first, it was placing old technology in a futuristic setting (pretty much retro-futurism), but as I created more and drew inspiration from online boards, and pieces of film, it turned into a vaporwave-esque digitized mess full of reds, blues, and everything in between. Along with this, inspiration was especially drawn from my love of computers and coding, and as I started to go down the career of inevitably advancing technology, the idea of a dystopian-like digital future is one I found unsettlingly aesthetic (thanks Bladerunner). What it comes down to for me is breaking the barrier between digital and physical, from creating physical art in a digital program to digital ideas in a physical art space, I enjoy the irony of colliding these words in multiple ways.