Hi everyone! My name is Andrea, or as most people know me, Drea. 

I developed my love for art at a very young age. What compels me most about art are the ways it can tell a million stories, and connect with a variety of people depending on the viewer. Art is something that grounds us, and allows each of us to feel a bit more seen, a bit more heard, and a bit more understood. We draw from various art forms different emotional connections based on our individual backgrounds and life experiences. Art has the ability to soothe us, to provoke a visceral response, and to propel us in a direction of thinking we wouldn’t have otherwise considered. 

During my undergraduate years, I studied interdisciplinary visual arts as well as art history at the University of Washington. The combination of learning art history and hands-on creating visual art allowed me to gain a more well-rounded understanding of everything that goes into making art. Art is a reflection of and a response to the environment around it, and highly influenced by  socioeconomic, political, and cultural events in relation to its time. We can engage in art in a multitude of ways. For me, photography happens to be the medium of choice to explore these storytelling techniques. 

Cameras were built to capture the world in a similar way to how the human eye functions, processing light and translating it into imagery that closely reflects how we see the world around us. It is a glimpse into a person’s mind of how they view their surroundings. It allows us to see things in ways we may never have considered. 

Welcome to my little corner of the internet, where I showcase glimpses of how I see the world. In other words, this is the world through Drea’s eyes.

This is life by Drea.