My name is Ellie, I’m an artist who likes to put pieces of herself in her work. My entire life I’ve focused on any form of art I can find, I have too much bouncing around my head to ever keep it all in. My video editing has always been my own brand of comedy, extremely dense, overly edited, absurdist in tone just because it makes me smile. My photography has become morbid, filled with a love of nature, a focus on color and contrast, and many times imbued with a sense existential dread. My drawing ends up closest to my own soul, whether its bright or dark, striking or subtle, soft or harsh, digital or analog, what I make is embarrassingly honest. Love, gender identity, sexuality, mental disorders, abuse, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and at times a sliver of hope, these are the things my work focuses on, but more than anything I express how all these feelings and ideas inevitably intertwine with each other.
My only goal is a degree of understanding. My art exists so that others can somehow experience the emotions I’ve at times felt trapped in, because as I go through my own process of self-discovery, I want something I’ve learned to be passed along. I want the lonely people to feel seen and understood, I want those who haven’t had these struggles or experiences to learn something important about the world around them, and more than anything I want empathy, the kind needed by those who didn’t make it here.
