Returning to Digital Art: Announcing My New Artworks Collection

I'm excited to announce something I've been working on for the past few weeks: a new Digital Artworks gallery on my portfolio. This isn't a side project that suddenly appeared. It's a return to something that defined me before product roadmaps and sprint cycles took over my creative energy.

For years, I've been living a split identity. By day, I'm a Product Manager solving problems through user research, data analysis, and systems thinking. But before that life, I was a digital artist. I was creating. I was making things that meant something to me. And somewhere along the way, I put that part of myself on pause.

The Pull Back to Creation

The tech industry has been good to me. It's given me structure, purpose, and the ability to build products that solve real problems. But there's a difference between building something because it's your job and creating something because you have something to say. Art is the latter.

Over the past few weeks, I've been channeling something that's been sitting dormant. Frustration. Observation. Anger at systems that don't work. Concern about where we're heading. These feelings needed an outlet, and words alone weren't cutting it.

What I've created is a collection of digital artworks rooted in gritty urban collage and conceptual typography. My work pulls from poster design, street culture, and zine aesthetics. Bold type sits at the centre. The words aren't decoration. They're the subject. They're the entire point.

What's Driving the Work

I design around tension. System pressure. Mental health. Disability awareness. Power. Distraction. These aren't abstract themes for me. They're things I see every day. Things I think about. Things that deserve more attention than they get.

Short phrases carry weight in my work. Social commentary hides in plain sight. The image pulls you in. The message holds you there. It's dystopian pop with intent. Editorial edge with street energy. I don't decorate. I confront.

Meet the Collection

I've launched seven new pieces. Here's a taste of what I'm exploring:

"Do It Anyway" is about creating grungy art without fear. About doing the work despite the doubt. It's the piece that broke me out of my creative freeze.

"Live Likes Its 1999" features an old Telstra phone booth. It's a commentary on living like it's 1999, back before phones consumed our entire existence. There's something melancholic about it. A reminder of a different pace of life.

"See The Able - Not The Label" is a disability awareness piece. It reads: "See the able, not the label." It's about perception, about what we choose to focus on, about recognizing humanity beyond categories.

"Dopamine" explores social media addiction. How we've become the experiment. How our attention has become the product being sold. It's uncomfortable. It should be.

"Gaslighting" critiques the healthcare system. How we treat symptoms while billing people for the stress that systems themselves create. Profiting from suffering.

"Distraction" is about media manipulation and how distraction is the strategy. It asks: who benefits from keeping us distracted? Who wins when we stop asking questions?

Each piece functions independently, but together they form something coherent. They're all asking variations of the same question: what are we accepting without questioning?

Why Now?

You might wonder why I'm doing this now. Why announce an art project when I'm already building products, writing, and managing a full career?

The honest answer is that I need to. Not for metrics. Not for portfolio enhancement. But because staying silent about things that matter costs something. Because art can communicate what think pieces can't. Because sometimes the most important work doesn't fit neatly into a career trajectory.

I'm returning to digital art because I remember why I started. Because creating something from nothing is still the thrill for me. Because there are things that need to be said, and I have the skills to say them in a way that might actually land.

Explore the Collection

The new artworks are now live on my portfolio. You can view the full collection with an interactive lightbox viewer, keyboard and mouse navigation, and image protection features built in. It's designed to showcase the work properly, to let it breathe.

If you care about social commentary in design. If you've ever felt the tension between system and self. If you're curious about where digital art meets activism, I'd love for you to visit the gallery.

Explore the Digital Artworks collection

This is chapter one. I'm planning more pieces, more themes, more confrontations. If you find yourself thinking about something you see there long after you close the tab, then it's doing its job.

Thanks for taking the time to care about this.