"For years, I immersed myself in the world of landscapes and realism—spending countless hours with charcoals, pencils, and chalk, striving to capture what I saw in front of me. While I enjoyed the process, I eventually realized that simply recreating what already exists in the world isn’t where my true passion lies. When I try to paint within those lines now, it feels limiting, almost as if I’m tracing someone else’s vision instead of expressing my own."