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WILL | PROJECT SERIES ONE

WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY CONTROL OVER IN LIFE?

HONESTLY? NOT MUCH.
NICE EFFORT, THOUGH.

CONTROL IS JUST AN ILLUSION WE HOLD ONTO.
THE TRUTH? WE ONLY CONTROL HOW WE RESPOND.

TO THE MESS.
THE UNEXPECTED.
THE MOMENTS WHEN… “WTF?”

SO INSTEAD OF HOLDING ON FOR DEAR LIFE,
MAYBE WE TRY SOMETHING NEW, LIKE LETTING GO.
LEAVE ROOM FOR THE UNPLANNED.
MEET THE CHAOS WITH A LITTLE HUMOR, SOME CREATIVITY,
AND LOTS… LOTS OF DEEP BREATHS.

BECAUSE WHEN LIFE FALLS APART (SPOILER: IT WILL),
PANICKING WON’T FIX ANYTHING.
BUT PRESENCE? MIGHT HELP.
AND HEY, HOPEFULLY A LITTLE HELP FROM ABOVE.

JUST REMEMBER:
EVERYTHING PASSES. IT ALWAYS DOES.
UNTIL THE NEXT THING SWIPES THE DAY.

SO HOLD ON. OR HANDS UP.
NO CONTROL EITHER WAY.

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"No CTRL” was born during a season of my life when I was being confronted by my own control issues. This series of designs, illustrations, and products became a way to express — and also process — the lessons I’ve had to learn (and keep learning) about the art of letting go.

Artworks

LOSE CTRL

WTF?!

ALL UDDER CONTROL

CONTROL IS AN ILLUSION

JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL

EMBRACE THE CHAOS

LEMONS

LET GO. LET GOD

EPILOGUE

A WORK IN PROGRESS. MORE TO COME... (PROBABLY)

THE VISUAL CONCEPT

WHEN I WAS ABOUT SIX YEARS OLD, ONE OF MY CLASSMATES BROUGHT TO SCHOOL A FOLDER FULL OF IMAGES PRINTED ON A DOT MATRIX PRINTER. FOR SOME REASON, I WAS COMPLETELY FASCINATED BY IT. IT WAS THE EARLY 1990s, A TIME WHEN ACCESS TO THAT KIND OF TECHNOLOGY WAS RARE — ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN.

LOOKING BACK, I BELIEVE THOSE PRINTS SPARKED MY PASSION FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ART. THAT SIMPLE FOLDER OF IMAGES PLANTED THE SEED FOR WHAT WOULD BECOME A LIFELONG CREATIVE JOURNEY.

YEARS LATER, I GOT MY FIRST COMPUTER AND STARTED EXPERIMENTING WITH THE TOOLS AVAILABLE, LEARNING HOW TO CREATE. IT WAS THE ERA OF DIAL-UP INTERNET, BITMAP IMAGES, AND GIFS — A TIME OF TRIAL, ERROR, AND COUNTLESS COMPUTER CRASHES. WITH NO FORMAL TRAINING, BUT A LOT OF CURIOSITY, THOSE MOMENTS BECAME THE FOUNDATION FOR DISCOVERING MY GIFT AND PASSION FOR DESIGN. IT WAS IN THAT SLOW, CLUNKY, BUT EXCITING DIGITAL WORLD THAT I REALIZED WHAT TRULY IGNITED ME CREATIVELY.

IN THIS NEW SERIES OF PROJECTS — THE FIRST OF MANY, I HOPE — I WANTED TO VISUALLY HONOR THOSE DEFINING MOMENTS. IT’S A TRIBUTE TO THE SPARK THAT SHAPED BOTH ME AND MY ART, REMINDING ME WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.