I’m Laylo, a genderqueer artist from the Bay Area, now living in Long beach after many years of studying and making art in New York.

In my free time, most of my energy goes towards painting, drawing, and making upcycled clothing, which all explores themes of homosexuality, gender identity, mythology, science-fiction, and the collective unconscious, depicting many human-animal hybrids and abstract expressions.

During the day, I work as a recreation therapist, and get to help my patients access healing and catharsis through creative self-expression across the arts, writing, movement, and music.

Throughout my life, expressing myself through the visual arts, creative writing, music, and dance has allowed me to heal through trauma and mental illness, and access a sense of liberation through coming to both know and love myself.

My artwork celebrates all that is authentically human; the magical, the mundane, the symbolic, the divine, and the abstract. They critique fascism, the policing of bodies and sexuality, and point out the surrealities of living in a fascist, dystopian society experiencing collapse.