Maze was always creating at a young age, with many of her earliest drawings depicting creatures she encountered in her dreams.

 

Through her school years, she loved getting lost in fictional worlds. Her nose was always in a Warrior Cats book, and her sketchbooks littered with cat drawings. She began drawing from inspiration of worlds she was enamored with and would always be doodling. A glimpse of her curiosity of the surreal began to emerge later in her high school art. 

 

When Maze attended Willamette University, her art history class on Dada and Surrealism was greatly intriguing to her. She was introduced to the artist Leonora Carrington, who is one of her greatest inspirations in depicting subtle symbolism within dreamy realms.

 

It wasn’t until 2021 when Maze transferred to the Pacific Northwest College of Art to pursue her artistic practice.

 

Maze graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2024 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Animation. She was entranced by the concept of bringing life to her art and found a great passion in making her art morph, ebb and flow through moving image. 

 

Her junior year short animated film, Les Yeux Comme Moi, was awarded Best Animation at West Sound Film Festival and Best Student Short at Cine Paris Film Festival . Through creating a brief short film, she was ignited to delve into complex concepts through world building.

 

Maze’s senior year thesis project was a world building pitch portfolio for an animated film trilogy titled Return to Eternium. She illustrates the complexity of human emotion within a surreal dystopian world that is stylistically unique, taking inspiration from the organic forms of art nouveau and various worlds in the sci-fi and fantasy genre. 

 

Maze currently lives in Bainbridge Island, WA with her boyfriend and two cats, Zona and Zelda. She has created her own studio ‘Eyewander Studio,' where she sells her sculptural jewelry metalwork, prints of drawings and original paintings.