I started creating abstract botanical drawings in my senior year of high school (2017-2018) beginning with "Trippy Forest" seen here in the upper left, which I started in Calculus class. I began doing these as a means of staying awake and focused during class, and not all teachers were receptive to this. The necessity of it came from what is likely undiagnosed ADHD, which results in my falling asleep if I have to sit perfectly still for too long. As such, these drawings also became symbolic of a fight against needless harassment by educators who had a rigid and objectively discrimantory definition of what a "focused student" looks like (note: I was making straight A's at the time I was drawing these in class, and I was still getting yelled at for it). Drawings 7-12 below were drawn after I graduated college, mostly during work meetings and seminars at a workplace where people are overjoyed by my drawings and take my engagement in our work activities while creating these as evidence that they are the focus tool that they are. To every educator who said, "They won't let you do that in the REAL world," it would seem we live in different worlds and always have.

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