My interest in art, drawing, cartoons and animation started at an early age and has been one of the few aspects of my life that has remained stable. Son of a Jamaican dad and a Spanish mom, I was born in New York. With both my parents working in international organizations we changed countries many times (USA, Egypt, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and UK). My life has been one full of airplanes, new faces, new landscapes, new ways of life. This was both amazing and demanding, as I had to adapt to a new culture and language often. Art

was one of the few main constants in my life. Drawing or animating on paper or computer would allow me to be me, independently of my surroundings.

During the most violent days of the revolution in Cairo I was stuck in an apartment while waiting to be evacuated. I had time to mess around on the family computer, and at just eight years old I accidentally (re-)invented animation for myself, when I drew multiple pictures on MS paint and tabbed through the pictures as quickly as possible to see the picture move. This was my absolute first-time doing animation, and ever since I have kept exploring opportunities and programs to continue developing. I also draw life,

mainly street scenes, portraits, nudes on paper mainly with pencil, ink, carbon.

My key driver for drawing and animating is life itself, its movement, its story line. I am inspired by what I see around me and my own relationship with it all, good and bad moments. Drawing and animation is for me both a way of reflection and storytelling. I am also interested in story

and politics and the dynamics of current and historical figures which I often compare with every day life events in my own life and draw paralelisms, lessons learned (or not learned) and humor. I also draw on all forms of visual art I come across with from street art to the classics, any form of human expression through art including music, dance and architecture.