My name is Daf. I am an artist and designer from Texas. I grew up in the south and have type 2 bipolar and high functioning autism. I often felt unfamiliar and out of place among my peers. Art was for me a way of processing the difficulties I was having socially, offering a bridge for me to connect with others. I found solace within my art and began learning, scouring the internet for resources and reading books, texts, and watching videos, spending hours upon hours furthering my art education. I started with the basics and slowly forged my skills and practices. Since a young age I never stopped that learning, and it has taken me to some really cool places with my own self expression, and allowed me to share parts of myself that would otherwise go unnoticed. So far I have worked in photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, pottery, sewing, and screen printing to name a few areas. I have learned not just the specific skills I needed for creating whatever art I need, but much more importantly I have learned how to learn, and how to love learning. Without the need for external motivation I can learn whatever needs to be learned quickly and add it to my expanding tool belt.