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This work was done with help from Ravensburger North America and is due to become a puzzle in 2023!

Creating "The Teaparty" really opened my mind up to my passion about why I create art. A lot of my work is based in the nostalgia of my childhood, and how art made me feel as a child. A lot of my work's goal is to make people see art in the same way I saw art back then.

And it wasn't illustrations! Sometimes it was Polly Pockets with colorful hair and glittery jelly shoes, it was movies like Legally Blonde that were unapolegetically femme and powerful. It was the art of Arina Tanemura, Super GALS!, Trina Schart Hyman... The list goes on and I'm reminded of old loves all the time. Anyway, point being, most of my target market is adults that are my age(ish) that have a similar love for all this nostalgia. So getting to work on a puzzle that I know KIDS around the country (and maybe world) are going to get to do, and enjoy... I thought so much about how little people might see themselves in these characters. How they might pick one as a favorite, and why, and what pastries they'd want to eat on the table, what pretend they might play after being inspired by the thought of a magical teaparty.

All this made me really emotionally invested in this piece in a way that was new to me and very exciting. A really romanticized view, but... When you're a kid, that is really how you feel about art you love. So I truly hope that some kids are able to feel that from this piece. ♥

Description
This work was done with help from Ravensburger North America and is due to become a puzzle in 2023!

Creating "The Teaparty" really opened my mind up to my passion about why I create art. A lot of my work is based in the nostalgia of my childhood, and how art made me feel as a child. A lot of my work's goal is to make people see art in the same way I saw art back then.

And it wasn't illustrations! Sometimes it was Polly Pockets with colorful hair and glittery jelly shoes, it was movies like Legally Blonde that were unapolegetically femme and powerful. It was the art of Arina Tanemura, Super GALS!, Trina Schart Hyman... The list goes on and I'm reminded of old loves all the time. Anyway, point being, most of my target market is adults that are my age(ish) that have a similar love for all this nostalgia. So getting to work on a puzzle that I know KIDS around the country (and maybe world) are going to get to do, and enjoy... I thought so much about how little people might see themselves in these characters. How they might pick one as a favorite, and why, and what pastries they'd want to eat on the table, what pretend they might play after being inspired by the thought of a magical teaparty.

All this made me really emotionally invested in this piece in a way that was new to me and very exciting. A really romanticized view, but... When you're a kid, that is really how you feel about art you love. So I truly hope that some kids are able to feel that from this piece. ♥