That is what has led me to have an unconventional academic experience, where I was involved in so many different initiatives and living in multiple places. I think we all have this in us, perhaps some of us more than others, and it’s more about following the drive to pursue those interests to see where they might lead, what we might learn, how we might impact others. My B.Sc course-list included both Neuroscience and Venetian Art History! I could imagine my life going a whole bunch of different ways (and still can). For as long as I can remember, I have been fervently interested in multiple things. I don’t believe in dichotomies, and I think that if we look around, nobody in our circle is all one thing or all another. I remember when I first launched my shop, my mind was suddenly on fire with ideas both for my dissertation and my art. As both creative and scientific sides are deeply ingrained in me, I feel like I need both to thrive.
For this reason, I always say that my career in science fueled my art and accelerated my vision for an online art shop, culminating in its launch during the most intensive part of my PhD (data analysis and manuscript-writing). As I conducted a part of my PhD research abroad and travelled to international scientific conferences, I collected more photographs and stories to tell. I learned mostly by doing, until photography became so natural to my daily routine that it changed the way my eyes were accustomed to seeing the world. Those travels enabled me to write, but also to discover a new form of storytelling - photography. My parents gave me my first digital camera as a “bon voyage” gift. After my B.Sc from McGill, I moved to Europe for two years to pursue an unconventional M.Sc program in three European countries.
I have always filled notebooks with ideas, impressions and recollections.
Rather, my first and favorite form of art is writing. I have almost always been academically-minded and passionate about a career in science I was the girl who carried an encyclopedia in her backpack and asked her 4th grade teacher whether she could do independent “research” while her peers did their schoolwork! But I have also been very creative from a very young age.
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