I’m bug, an interdisciplinary artist, illustrator and tattooist based on Coast Salish territories colonially Vancouver, BC.
My perspectives are informed by transness, queerness, disability justice and mad liberation. I understand dreaming and inspiration as living components of collective livelihood and see the role of artists as constructing hope. Knowing art as a form of relation free of conventionality, I hope my work can be both a mirror and a door for everyone who feels called to it.

Drawing is core to my practice, both in my personal work and trades as an illustrator and tattooer. Digital and ink illustration, acrylic, watercolour and gouache painting, essay, fiction and poetry writing, comics, zines, printmaking, textiles and sculpture are some of the mediums of my work. Balancing non-traditional artistic discipline with commitment to the generative chaos of visual play, my skills come from outside formality and classical training.

Looking at self documentation as empowered history, and story as survival I work with visual narrative. My story is a rejection of sanity and status-quo reality and a navigation of the magic of queerness and interconnection. It is a homage to self, reality and time as fluid and non-linear and a visioning of dreamworld futures made tangible through freak art and magical realism.