As I got older, I knew I wanted to do something creative, I just had no idea what that looked like. In Year 12, my artwork became a way of sorting through information and experiences that were much bigger than me. My major final artwork explored the effects of divorce, something that had a major impact on my childhood, and creating it gave me a way to process and communicate something that was difficult to put into words. That piece became a really meaningful part of my creative journey. My Year 12 studies were later used as example folders for high school art students, and my final piece was selected to be exhibited at the SASA Gallery in the city. I finished Year 12 with a 90 ATAR and found myself stuck between two paths: becoming an art teacher, or studying design and seeing where it could take me. I chose the second, and that decision opened the door to a whole world of creativity I didn't even know existed.