About Me

Ash

General Information

I am a graphic design student at MCC pursuing my associates degree. I live with my dad and my younger brother with our dog, Cisco. I also have a pet corn snake who I’ve loved for the past 4 years or so. I work at a small family-owned pottery studio on Algonquin Rd called Fox Valley Pottery. I also love anime, manga, and really anything artistic.

Aspiring Graphic Designer

I love art and always have. I knew going into college I wanted to pursue something artistic but I didn’t know what until I took a few graphic design classes at my high school. I fell in love with the versatility and the non-permanence of it. I have a fear of messing something up if I take a risk, but with graphic design everything can be undone or changed. There are also so many applications for it that I knew if I didn’t have much direction aside from art there would be a lot of options open for me.

Identity and Queerness

I am queer and nonbinary. I was fighting with the feeling of something being different from a very young age. When I hit puberty I felt alien in my own skin and didn’t know what was wrong. Through the internet I discovered that some people were transgender and nonbinary and I felt that nonbinary clicked for me. Some sort of foggy in between of male and female. I also am still not quite sure of my sexuality but I am in no rush to figure it out. I like what I like and I have come to accept that and define it in a way that makes me most comfortable.