...and we're back!

Long time no speak…(this has become a theme) …but it’s broken finally.

Soooo… so much has happened in my life since the last time I got on here. As you can see, the website has been updated, and I have finally begun doing art consistently. I have so much new art to add to the site and more prints will be available to purchase as well as some limited runs of appeal so you can wear my creations on your awesome bodies!

First off, I believe the last time I posted, I gave and update of my goings on up to when I went on a podcast. So basically 2023… well since then let’s see…um, I ended up needing to live with my now fiancé’s mother’s house with her because the housing market went bananas in 2023 and the cost of rent was more then owning a house. It really was insane to have seen folks believe people were going to pay those prices for JUST rent! So, we stayed there until fall of 2024. We ended up getting lucky and found a lower price for a house to rent and we jumped on it! BUT… before that happened, two of my grandfathers passed away a month a part in the summer of 2024. Both of my mother’s side so not exactly the best time in my life. Not to mention my fiancé was also dealing with family issues as well. I ended up having way more job craziness. It was a wild time to live through.

Highlights of 2025 were, I got engaged in Costa Rica! The picture to this post is from the waterfall after I proposed! It was amazing! Costa Rica was soooo peaceful! Like… it was the first time in years where I felt like I didn’t have to be in survival mode and could just enjoy life. One of the best times of my life so far! We moved my father-in-law into assisted living. It was an interesting experience, but since he could not truly take care of himself on his own anymore, it was for the best. He has been getting better health wise since he moved there. I have traveled more in the last 2 years than I had in a long while due to going back to Indiana for my family and Illinois for my fiancé’s family. I started going to therapy and my therapist is awesome! I have learned a whole lot about myself and quite a bit of it were things I already knew, but I wasn’t listening to myself enough. I have finally come out of survival mode and now reside in a neutral space. I have learned that I am very good balance of two very different halves (thanks parents lol). This learning process has been the greatest and I have my fiancé to thank the most! She has been the most solid person in my life. She truly was rooting for me even when I wasn’t aware I wasn’t rooting for myself. She is the reason I was able to start getting back into art uninterrupted. She encouraged me to do it even though I was unemployed. Even when I was depressed. Even when I was uneasy about how things were going. She wanted me to do the thing that brought me most joy. She saw how I was when I did art previously and knew this was who I was supposed to be. Things have been challenging and getting my confidence back into something that used to come easy to me, was taxing at first. I also learned through therapy that my hesitation to do artistic anything, was due to the fact I tied art to the death of my brother in 2010. I had taken a decade long break and started doing art again in 2020, but things just didn’t feel right. I kept trying and kept quitting repeatedly. But I also never felt whole without art. So, it wasn’t until I was creating a piece of my brother that I started feeling heavy and the procrastination started showing up. So, after talking about it with my fiancé, I got the revelation that I wasn’t fully over his death. Not because he was gone, but how everything happened and how, so many questions on the whole thing that are still unanswered 15 years later. I do not believe what was said happened, happened. I have watched entirely too many documentaries, and crime shows to believe what happened, happened. So, talking that over with my therapist helped sort through those feelings and concerns.

Let’s see… we are planning the wedding and have all the vendors so far and I must get my suit made soon. Weddings to unnecessarily expensive… like dude… c’mon! Prices for everything in this country have just become unbearable. But that will come to an end eventually, either they lower and normalize prices across the board, or I move out of the country. I prefer the ladder to be honest. Whatever happened? 2025 was kind of a blur. It was just non-stop traveling and family stuff and therapy. Through it all we still found a way to make things happen, live well and enjoy life! I want to give the biggest shout out to my fiancé, Siris! She has been busting ass like no other since I was down bad. Like she stepped up in the biggest way!

I do believe I have rambled enough so I think I will leave it here.

Side note: I have decided to do at least one post a month minimum so if you want to keep up with me and my goings on, this is where it will be posted. I don’t really post personal things on socials much anymore. If you see me on social media, it will be about my artistic endeavors 99% of the time. The time is now and it feels damn good! Stay tuned for A LOT more creative ventures!

Thanks for reading ✌

Sup.