My passion for drawing began after taking a perspective sketching course in middle school where I was inspired by the works of Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe and Eugene Viollett-le-Duc. I honed my eye towards architecture following a month-long trip in Europe in the summer of 2017, riding trains from Belgrade, Serbia, as far north as Stockholm, Sweden. I visited old cities like Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Hamburg, Copenhagen, and Gotland and fell in love with the unique character of each city's buildings. Upon returning, I completed a short perspective project relying on photographs I captured while in Europe.

I continued drawing in college, shifting towards scene sketches and even had to opportunity to create hand-drawn concept artwork for my senior studio planning course which were published in the final report here. In college, I experimented with less precise line work and began to working on scenes of rooms and built structures amongst plants, trees, and water.