Humor and animal drawings shape the tone and accessibility of the work while still carrying political messages. The artist gathers language and phrasing by listening closely to people in everyday life. The work aims to generate interest in world events and to emphasize messages in a way that feels more acceptable. Political involvement includes running for a local seat, helping with local politics, and creating animal-based prompts that encourage voting in local primary elections. Additional messaging includes a cat character delivering a direct political line. The artist also collaborates with other artists to raise awareness of political and social issues and criticizes reliance on a single news source. Some proceeds are directed to an organization that assists immigrants.
"It's like analog Twitter here in the city; I can just listen outside my window and hear the best stuff. I don't even have to try."
"That's inspiring to me, the idea of using my art to help generate interest in what's going on in the world. I like to use humor, and the animals I draw, to convey the messages I want to emphasize, and I feel like the animals help lighten the tone, which makes them generally more accepted."
"Most recently, she has used her artistic talents to forward local political causes by using her drawn rabbit to tell people to vote in local primary elections, and she's created a cat who tells readers: "Trump always caves. Just say no.""
"A lot of people don't even know, just aren't aware of what's really going on. They watch Fox News and think that's real, and that's not right."
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