The barista era is coming to an end soon :] so please enjoy

JaNEWary The 2nd place fall took place 15 years ago. I thought wow, that story is old enough to have a learners permit…baffling

I’ve been in artistic trenches and someone paid for a free version of my work today 😪

Mango matchaaaaa

Busy using my art degrees

More, this time w almond milk and matcha

Latte art progression

Happy 11/11, after what felt like an eternity of chasing after the Aurora borealis in Chicago…finally

I listened to my mom and started a substack substack.com/@laek621?r=o...

All vegan! I am not vegan but I am experimenting with vegan foods because I know so many vegans 🙂‍↕️ The first is a chocolate tofu pudding and the second is a macadamia nut milk matcha w banana bread cold foam 🤩 The lighting in my apt 💔

If you want to donate to Hurricane Melissa relief, please only donate to the official government website: supportjamaica.gov.jm

Watching this hurricane plow through my city from a distance has been the hardest watch

Attempted to walk 26 miles yesterday but only made it to 20.4 💔

Unrelated to art but being a full time barista in Chicago means that sometimes you are working and you meet one of your favourite musicians and you don’t realize you met them because you are really bad with faces. This is the story of how I met børns earlier this week without knowing I met him 💔

I forget that there is a whole world of people who do not know any of my mainly fictional mythological work 💔 and only know my auto bio fiction work 😮‍💨 my mind works in a mystical way

The concept of getting a star and becoming a star etc etc 🇯🇲

Meanings of each section

Esse non videri Drawing these last to first is so fun actually

It’s been so nice to finally have time again to cook 😭

Me earlier this year: yeah so I’m drawing my future and it’s just a manifestation lol Me when all the things start to appear: 👀 The leaf is still getting to me low key

✨🌕🥮中秋节快乐🥮🌕✨

I forgot that my Bluesky is on my business cards 😭 I keep being like ahhh how did you all find me  Like I didn’t give the information 

Soobin from txt 😭😭😭🩷🩷🩷

Soft launching my friends on instagram everyday and sprinkling my partner in the middle on national boyfriend day so it is not suspicious and perfectly aligned

Volare 🤩

🤩🤩🤩🤩 December 24 I can do it 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Every time I’m like wow I’m flop I have to remind myself that i graduated last month 😭 time is so strange

2026 is about to be a year 🤩

Twas the night before the journey to cxc

This is some of the craziest symbolism I’ve ever encountered 😭 do you know how crazy it is to randomly encounter that leaf on a walk?

SPX debut!

BOOM CLAP THE SOUND OF MY HEART

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I’ve made so many decisions recently, it’s time for a NAP

This is literally the happiest I’ve been in years 💀 and all it took was being away from [redacted]

Recent Chicago eats 🙂‍↕️ yum yum yum

Some of you don’t create for the love of creation and that’s why you’re sad

I’m free

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There’s food at home I chant to myself to remind myself I do not need to buy food because I am talented

I debated throwing away my bigger MFA show piece but I was like you survived install, de-install, my studio, the rat…surely you can survive another torrential downpour 🫥 It did but I low key did not 💀

Getting a cold rn is crazy 😭

So barista core I started making the equipment from scratch 😪

Dance do a little dance 🌱

I can finally make work about all of this without feeling like a liar

Making moves 🚶🏽‍♀️‍➡️

Looking gr8

Live footage of me after I finished drawing multiple pages in order

Truly life changing

Me because of the roaches in my current apartment. They’ve taken over all my spices 😭 first a RAT ate my groceries and now all the spices that took years to accumulate have gone to the roaches 😭