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A Reader’s Roller Coaster

A Reader’s Roller Coaster visualizes the emotional roller coaster of reading, distilling the highs, lows, and twists of a story into a single conceptual spot illustration. Created as a speculative editorial piece, it reflects the intensity and joy of narrative immersion.

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Steps in Bloom

A speculative conceptual editorial illustration for a NYT wellness feature, visualizing walking as a meditative practice with transformative, blooming steps.

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Los Angeles, Illustrated

A personal series of observational sketches focusing on the people of Los Angeles. From a parent with a baby at the farmers market to commuters, coffee shop regulars, and beach wanderers, each drawing distills a fleeting human moment into minimal black-and-white linework. The series highlights the subtle gestures, moods, and interactions that bring LA’s neighborhoods to life—intimate, cinematic, and grounded in real daily experience.

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Our Planet Week

Swimming with the Giants was created for Our Planet Week, a global art initiative spotlighting Earth Day. This piece celebrates the vision, resilience, and leadership of women advocating for the protection of our planet’s oceans and ecosystems.

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Pieces of Us

This conceptual piece imagines the journey of self-discovery as a puzzle. Inspired by a New York Times wellness narrative, the illustration reflects on identity, vulnerability, and the lifelong search for wholeness.

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New York Fall Fashion Illustrated

An ongoing collection of observational sketches that explore Los Angeles through composition, light, and lived-in scenes. The series blends city landmarks—like the LACMA lamps or the coastline—with intimate people moments such as a parent at the farmers market or friends waiting for coffee. Drawn in minimal black-and-white linework, these pieces capture the layered mood of LA: cinematic, ordinary, and quietly full of character.

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