About Me

My mom once wrote me a note when I was 2 years old. In it, she wrote “You have a special excitement for life about you and I hope you never lose that.”

I was always the kid who got in trouble for drawing in my math book or on myself. Even when I was young I always knew exactly the things that interested me and those things always had to do with some form of creating, art or self expression. I was always perfectly fine with living in my own dreamy and creative world and leaving the analytical one to everyone else. I just loved to draw!

For the majority of my time growing up, my family and I lived in Hudson, Wisconsin (Sry Minnesota is better). My brother & I spent many of our days running barefoot through the woods or gathering friends to go snow tubing. I was always highly involved in the arts such as dance, music, drawing, painting and even pottery classes. I’ve always felt very lucky to have had two parents who were always very supportive of my creative outlets. As I grew a little more, I began to feel that art was always the place where there was enough room to hold both everything that is light and dark inclusively without judgement.

In 2018 I left my art behind for a while in favor of doing what felt the most comfortable and safe for me after the unexpected loss of my mom. I went to college where I majored in Social Work for 3 years. Don’t get me wrong, I was good ENOUGH at it lol, but I realized it was only something I was working towards so I wouldn’t have to face the giant ego death I was going through. I didn’t realize that I didn’t actually quite know what interested me anymore and the excitement I used to feel had gone stale.

That is until I began writing. Everything. Writing then translated into drawing and painting again. Drawing and painting then translated into me sort of re-introducing myself to myself if you catch my drift. Not only can art hold the dark, the light and everything in between, but it can help you reconcile with it. I realized then that art was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

I’m now a licensed tattoo artist and have been at Peregrine Tattoo since November 2022 with the most amazing tattoo family I could’ve asked for all thanks to my mentor Poohki! I feel like the luckiest person as I’ve been able to learn and grow in a shop that is so unique and feels like home to me. I look forward to each day I’m there where I’m guaranteed to always learn something new, hear the latest dad joke and exchange stories with clients.