// none of this existed before me

This piece emerged from entertaining a single thought-- what if I doodled over my photo?

// none of this existed before me depicts both the joy and the overwhelm of the act of creation. The subject is subjected to a cacophony of 'noise.' Both fortunately and unfortunately, this cacophony is of the subject's own design. The subject, while it ought to celebrate its newfound company, each conceived out of love and intention, is now shouldered with the responsibility of tending to each of their hyper-specific, disparate needs.