Hi, my name is Lydia. I am a multimedia artist from Texas. I work with pen and ink, oil, acrylics, clay sculpture and ceramics, and digital 3D work using Blender. I am currently studying in Ireland for my Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Art. My work started as an outlet for my OCD and PTSD and now it has become a full blown passion, as I wish to teach the arts at a collegiate level. I also wish to use the arts as a way to give relief and therapy for others whom have suffered great trauma such as domestic and sexual abuse survivors. I focus my work on oil paintings and am currently working to make visual experiences using performance, video, and projections.

I have a desperation for understanding abstraction in character, the meanings humans put to objects, animals and ideas. Tangibility is a sense of life I am constantly fighting with. I am pushing myself to move farther and farther from real, concrete ‘things’, like a bird, or snake, but yet I cannot help but feel that those tangible things, when finally wrought out in some medium, becomes more than their lost story. In the coming years I hope to not only separate our connections to our experiences of symbols, but to eventually have a full realization of the abstract nature of our stories, that live far beyond our generations and cultures.