Eat Your Greens 

“Eat your Greens” is a digital photo montage designed in late 2025. Its purpose is to illustrate the care and joy of “ingredient forward cooking”.  

The purpose of this project was to create a self-portrait in the form of a photomontage using a combination of original and found photos.  

I wanted to recreate the classic social media food trend of people taking phone pictures of a spread of food and build from there. The addition of the chopsticks was not only a flex on my use of the lasso-tool in photoshop, but it’s a nod to those sitting at the same table who can’t wait to just dig in.  

Two of my biggest loves are food and art.  

Everything about food and cooking excites me, from spending hours at a farmers’ market, to creative flavors pairings, to experimental cooking techniques to eating. One of the things that makes cooking specifically so exciting is how easy it is to let either one or a few ingredients really shine. When I cook and develop recipes, I tend to gravitate towards a certain vegetable with the goal of making it the star of the dish.  

I’m really unable to pinpoint a time in my life where I can say my love of art started. Growing up it felt like I had some sort of art supplies always on hand, be it a paintbrush, crayon or way too much glue. And while I spend most of my free time working on my illustration skills, creating collages has always been my bread and butter. Being able to cut and paste a ton of images into something cohesive and surreal was genuinely so much fun.