Work from my BFA Thesis, Dreams, Gentleness, and an Earnest Sense of Immaturity, a case study of the unconscious. I feel constantly in contradiction. Both my thoughts and my actions exist in a continuous confusion. Confused about what I am feeling, what I am thinking, how I am acting. Daydreaming endlessly, my own existence was raised in situational avoidance of the supposed real world. For years I thought nothing of it, but then I started to notice it was not just mindless doodles and visual ramblings, but elements of my life began to leak into the image. The practice of living under false pretenses is something I do either to utterly avoid or to work through things I have a hard time understanding. Building the lives of characters and strange beings through prints and writings become, in hindsight, puzzles for my future self to solve. To see where their storylines and my life coalesce. A comorbid fantasy. Creating prints brings their false lives into reality, their world into ours, allowing them to exist for a moment and for us to watch. Connecting the pieces to find myself present with the significance of symbolism used and in turn my troubling inner conflicts are made more clear.