🍃 What do you mean "observer?" 👀

To put it simply, observer is my shorthand for “observational artist.” In a lot of my personal work, you might notice images of nature, flowers, trash, signage, grafitti, as well as statements about looking, listening, researching, learning, etc. I approach a lot of my personal work as a sort of messy scrapbooking exercise. I am constantly noting things I observe around me by either writing about them or taking photos. This act of collecting often finds itself getting translated through my personal work.

Why not just say artist? Well, I don’t really consider myself a “capital A” Artist in whatever sense that means. Maybe it’s imposter syndrome, maybe I just don’t feel like I deserve the title. On the other hand, I don’t consider the commercial practice of graphic design to be art, either. So therein lies the dichotomy of presenting myself. I don’t personally relate to my commercial design work, so I would like people to be aware of my personal artwork as an equal part of my outward expression. So I came up with this title as a response to the anxiety of using the word “artist” to describe myself.