Music

Terminal Sisters Art Collective is a loose, evolving collaborative effort between my partner and me, as well as a small constellation of queer artist friends scattered throughout the Chicagoland area and beyond. What began as a simple way for us to share our creative work with one another has slowly grown into a community of people who exchange ideas, skills, and encouragement. The collective isn’t rigid or formal; instead, it exists as an open framework. Something flexible enough to hold the shifting interests, identities, and artistic impulses of everyone involved. Each person contributes in their own way, whether through illustration, writing, crafting, or simply showing up to cheer the rest of us on.

As the collective continues to take shape, we’re already imagining the forms it might take in the future. One of our shared dreams is to branch out into forms of artistic expression we haven’t yet explored, such as music and game development. These mediums feel like natural extensions of our collaborative spirit: music for its emotional immediacy and its capacity to bring people together, and game development for its unique blend of storytelling, design, and interactivity. Both offer possibilities for creative experimentation that excite us, and both would allow us to build immersive experiences that reflect our queer perspectives in new and unexpected ways.

On a more personal note, music has always been a significant part of my life. I am a lifelong violin player, having grown up with the instrument and returning to it again and again as a grounding force. Recently, I’ve begun teaching myself to play the keyboard, approaching it with the same mixture of curiosity and stubborn enthusiasm that I bring to most creative projects. Learning a new instrument feels like opening a door to another room in a house I’ve lived in forever. Familiar, and yet full of new possibilities. I hope to produce and share my own music someday in the not-too-distant future, perhaps even weaving it into the larger work of the Terminal Sisters Art Collective.

For now, consider this webpage an aspirational placeholder; a quiet promise to myself and to anyone following our work that more is on the horizon.