I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.

Nowadays anyone can show their art to anybody via the Internet.

I created my own space, which was called the cave. It was a live/work space in downtown Los Angeles on 7th and Spring. When I lived there it was quite derelict. I got this massive space and half of it was my bedroom and the other half of it was the back room - no [natural] light, all fluorescent lights.

Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.