I'm an Art educator living in Orange County CA.  I like to draw and eat Korean BBQ with my friends.  I also enjoy building furniture from ikea.  I have a box full of random things that will someday contribute to my soon to be flourishing art practice. Mostly though I aspire to work with students to nurture their creativity and imaginations.  Often my mind races about lesson ideas or discussion i would love to have about art. To me art was a means of understanding the importance of trial and error. It was a process that taught me perseverance and rewarded my hard work.  I want to provide that esperience for students.  I imagine an enviroment where students feel emboldened to take creative risks and push themselves into territory they arents familiar with. I want my studens to feel comfortable making mistakes.  Teaching my students that mistakes are an essential prat to learning and life as a whole is a core motivator for me.  I love art because through this wild process that takes my emotions hostage and engages me entirely, I end up with a very tangible, very showoff-able result.  Like an artifact that commemorates the brutal slef imposed struggle I endured in my own microcosm.  I love to draw and paint and build but mostly i love to work with others i love to see people learnin