hello ! i am liberty and welcome to my page! this is a place where i am free to learn, mess up, and experiment. in addition, it is a place where you can get to know me better.
this is and forever will be a work in progress. i am also fairly new to CSS, HTML, and JS; therefore, some pages may be missing, unfinished, and the code is probably sloppy. despite all of that it has been fun to learn.
much of the art is made by myself; although some is also open sourced from various places of the internet - all credits are written in the code feel free to snoop around :))
a split but singular practice:
I built this portfolio in two versions because it was asked of me.
One speaks in grids, gutters, carefully kerned letters, and other words I do not know. And the other speaks in bright colors, shitty jpegs, long loading times. Both can be true though. I don't really feel the need to choose one as both are necessary.
Design has always been a negotiation between order and instinct. Da Vinci would call the artist a "second God" with a vital role in creation. At what point as a God do We create or simply just Do.
One of my sides assures you I can speak the language of contemporary design. A clean edge, modular system, the promise of efficiency and user-friendliness. Although, I also think human things should look handmade, with human hands, human flaws, and the inert joy of building something new because you could.
I guess this sort of becomes a truce to those two halves, signed and published. A collaboration as much as a battle.
Oops! And I made it with AI. Or maybe I made it through AI. Or perhaps AI is just the newest version of the pencil.
I think it is a tool that gives me more time to do the thing I meant to do all along. To think, imagine, design, to tell stories, and to spend more time with my mom. If design is the search for clarity through limitation, then AI is the loophole that hands back a few stolen minutes. A silent and willing collaborator in the world’s ongoing project of trying to stretch time.
I don't think it is a threat. I don't think it is a crutch. It is just another voice in the room, because collaboration is the heart of this whole thing anyway.
I consider each project here as another iteration of a infinite, ongoing pattern. They are conversations between me, the client, the tools, the research, the accidents, and everything else in-between that gets me to the end. Creativity is an insatiable organism.
It grows between people, between processes, between questions asked at midnight, and answers returned in 0.3 seconds. It grows when another artist sees you, not as a brand to be optimized, but as a living, thinking maker of things. I think of art as a birth child. This manifesto isn’t for employers or clients or professors, though they’re welcome to read it. It’s for everyone, but mostly for myself. I still believe art is worth wrestling with, and I know originality is not a finite resource but, rather, a repeating pattern we keep rediscovering in ourselves. I am not claiming to be original, that would be a pretentious lie, but I am claiming to be intentional .
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