I’ve been making art and escaping into alternate dimensions since before I could form sentences.
I was a real-life version of that horror movie trope of an eerily quiet kid drawing disturbing supernatural pictures with a crayon. I got my first paid illustration gig in high school working on what would become madnesscanada.com, an online portal of research and teaching materials about the history of mental health and psychiatry in Canada. On top of illustrating and designing for the website for several years, I got to meet and learn about radical anti-psychiatry activists who took on an oppressively carceral mental healthcare system in the sixties onwards. I later studied graphic design at the Concordia Centre for Continuing Education in Montreal, and worked with clients like SHAC (Students of History at Concordia) before moving back to Toronto and completing additional graphic design certificates at George Brown College.
My decade of graphic design and illustration experience is complimented by more recent years of working as a fundraiser, copywriter and digital marketer at Public Outreach, before returning to freelancing and launching my sole proprietorship Outcybe in 2025. My freelance clients have included the Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre, Oxtail Pho and further work for Madness Canada.
My visual and narrative art exhibition Cryptids of Oughtnorot was open to the public at the Show Gallery on Queen West in January of 2024.