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Honoured to have designed and hand-painted this football live on-site for their Partnership Kickoff Event! Huge thank you to the team for trusting me with my vision for its design and for such a fun opportunity. 🏈

I think a lot of people can relate to the heartaches & headaches of ‘the Process’. What it means to be behind building your craft and doing the actual crafting. So I wanted to share an honest story of the complex feelings that come with doing something that you love - especially when what you love becomes work.

And as this football was completely painted by hand, you can imagine how many complex feelings that come with the beauty and pains of handmade work.

Do you relate to this on some level- whether you are a creative or not?

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BRING BACK RUNNING POSTERS: Around the Bay (30KM) edition. 🏃🏻🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

Specifically illustration/art posters. Ever since I ran my first marathon and made my own conceptual race kit, I’ve had this series in my mind: Bring Back Running Posters. And as an illustration artist who loves to run, I knew I had to take this matter into my own hands LOL. 🎨

I had to start from the beginning - a race that I’ll be running myself for the first time this year! Around the Bay is a 30km road race in Hamilton, Ontario and is considered the oldest in North America.

[This idea was born out of a love for running designs and vintage running posters, stemming from a convo I had with .j.c (a certified Hamiltonian and sick runner, and who I consulted with for some of the motifs of this design hehe ❤️)]

Reconciling femininity with my masculinity is a challenge I’ve constantly grappled with, and I’m sure many of you can relate.

Many people struggle with balancing an identity that is feminine due to the stigmatization of individuals who express themselves in feminine ways. We constantly have to prove ourselves, often to the point of sacrificing our femininity, in order to be taken seriously and not seen as ‘less competent’ as our more ‘masculine’ counterparts. Men, women, non-binary folks alike.

We’ve seen this countless times, and even more recently with how the USA Women’s Hockey Team was treated versus the Men’s. We see it in how people react to “feminine” styles on men, like cropped tops and form fitting silhouettes and painted nails. We see it in how “feminine” attributes as less desirable or admirable in the hierarchy of human traits. We see it in how “feminine” genres, such as romance, are viewed. They’re dismissed as “guilty pleasures” or considered “low brow”.

But there is beauty and joy in the co-existence of masculinity and femininity in all aspects of life, whether it be in fashion/style, music, art… Because being feminine doesn’t make you any less worthy.

We need to learn to embrace diverse expressions of femininity and accept that it can co-exist with typically masculine traits and domains, without one taking away from the other.

What are your thoughts? Do you have any stories/experiences you’re comfortable sharing in relation to this?

Proud of this team- regardless of the result! In the end, this is bigger than the game. The words “Her first. Your last. Our best”, written on Marie-Philip Poulin’s hockey stick, is an ode to the rookies playing on this stage for the first time, an applaud for those who have been here before (and may be playing for the last time), and a reminder that in the end, it isn’t about the individual. It’s about the team - on and off the ice. 🏒🥈

So this illustration and jersey design is for ALL generations. Future and current. For you - the Legacy, the Blueprint, the Masterpiece. And you - the Sketch, the Future, the Work in Art in the making. 💛

If you’re proud of Team Canada, tag - regardless if it wasn’t the result we wanted!