A little bit about me
First of all, I’m sure you’re wondering “why the burger!?” Fair enough!
Well, that’s me! I’m burger …or Am-berger. It’s a nickname that has stuck with me since middle school and I adore it. Plus, everybody loves a good burger!
I’ve been making art and using any excuse to be creative/crafty for as long as I can remember. It’s always just felt natural to me. I began really trying to hone my skills in high school with pencil and charcoal and stayed there for years, building skill and confidence before curiosity pulled me outward. Then I wandered through colored pencil, paint, mixed media, and even some digital work. I never really learned how to stay in one lane, and I love it that way.
The Makeup and Film World
As a kid, I always wanted to work in the film industry so when filming came to New Mexico, it was a sign that I had to pursue my dream. I graduated with my bachelors in film production in 2015 and I got my foot in the door with my first film job. I. Was. Hooked. While I began making connections to the film world, I found my passion for makeup artistry, special effects makeup and body painting. I began doing makeup and creating headpieces, and accessories in late 2016 doing photo shoots, freelancing gigs, and earning my union days on film sets until I got into the union in 2020. I remain passionate about film work, but my heart is yearning for me to pick my pencil back up.
Art as Healing and Spirituality
As an adult, art has always been tied to healing for me — not always in subject, but in process. It’s been my home base and safe space. Creation usually happens while I’m moving through something. Early on, realism offered clarity and structure. As my relationship with art evolved, so did my willingness to follow emotion and intuition. Lately, I’m guided by color, feeling, and sensation rather than replication. I’m less interested in what something looks like, per se (although dopamine is a big motivator and I draw what I love to stare at 😍), and I’m more interested in how it feels.
Making art brings me back into my body. It quiets my mind — or at least makes the noise feel manageable. It feels relieving, playful, grounding, and expansive all at once. Along with running, it’s one of the few places where I feel fully at home. Being an AuDHD, ENBY, witch, keeping myself grounded is very necessary and important to me. Some of my work has even begun to live inside my spiritual practice as part of my rituals — my witchuals if you will, but even if you won’t 😂😘😝. It’s become a way of listening, releasing, and translating energy into form. The act of creating itself is often the spell.
Making Art for Myself
For a long time, I created for others as gifts, offerings, or proof of love. Now my work begins with curiosity and joy, a desire to create something weird, and different -something that I want to look at and get lost in. It’s becoming more reflective of who I am -strange, emotional, a little eccentric and sometimes a lot dramatic. It’s me dancing in the living room with my inner child. This work isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence, about feeling, about allowing transformation to unfold on the page. It’s about chasing joy and living the life my inner child always dreamed about.
Hullo, this is me. ✨
