Tell us a few designers who inspire your work...

Rick Owens, The Gvasalia brothers, Scott Sasso, Dapper Dan, Gosha Rubchinskiy (especially the collabs), Yoon Anh, Angel Chen...Pieter Mulier is honestly fire, he has an attention to detail that I really appreciate. I love Robert Wun and his surrealist approach to fashion. Outside of fashion, in my woodcut and printmaking life: Helen Frankenthaler, David Carson, Lance Letscher, Ralph Steadman, you know, the standards. I like a serious ornament and some ferocious details across the board and I like a commitment to quality, I like brutalism, I like pushing limits and boundaries. All these people do just that and it inspires me greatly.

In 3 words describe your drip.

oooo tough....I'd say this is actually the toughest question, for me to do anything in three words is a feat. I'd go with detail, unapologetic and swank. Literally these could change tomorrow lol. 

What are your artistic goals for 2026?

My goals for 2026 are as follows: secure building/space that all my machines can fit in (its excessive at this point, 4 presses, 1 36" metal shear, 1 massive paper guillotine, 6 sewing machines (2 industrials) and 10 sets of flat files and tables out the ass). This goal is mandatory, I need to be able to streamline my process by having my tools in the same space. Goal 2: get some really solid staples, and a good grade rule, and get the woodcut drip out there on the bodies. Goal 3: Carve at least 3 large scale blocks specifically for fabric printing, more pattern based ornament, less standalone piece with margins on a wall vibes. I'd also love to collaborate in a fashion way, whatever that could look like. I don't want to leave the collaboration part of my printmaking history behind.

5 fave bands: 1-The Clash 2-Lebanon Hanover 3-100 Gecs 4-CAKE 5-Idles  --- I have so many favorites, i consume music like it has calories and I'm going for gains ---

Do you split your time between your wood/printmaking and clothing? Or do they all blend together?

Everything is in the blender right now. The fashion thing is relatively new, garment construction hella new, so I've been spending a lot of time on that. I've taught myself pattern drafting, grading, sewing all of it like in the past few months. Before I started The Asylum, I was Master Printer at Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas and I was printing for other artists 40 hours a week. I worked for almost 9 years there and when I left I knew I didn't want to do publishing like that anymore.  I started publishing on my own and hosted residencies as well as remote publications that raised over 10k for women's reproductive rights, right after Roe v Wade was overturned.  There were a couple experiences including not receiving my half of a publication, or even the archive proofs, back and getting a real cold shoulder from my industry that kind of pushed me into never wanting to work in that way again, and right into fashion. It started with putting woodcut patches on the back of upcycled vintage button ups and jackets, and then I was challenged to push myself more and I'm grateful for that, because now I can literally make a wardrobe. So, I used to be all printmaking, and right now I feel like I'm all fashion, but the goal is a mix of both. I really love the traditional technique woodcut drip, and I love designing pieces and shapes that can showcase that, instead of just slapping them on upcycles like I used to. I'm looking forward to getting a good print rotation in so I have a constant supply of printed fabric to cut my patterns from.  

Joy Division or New Order?

Joy Division fs but I lost control a long time ago. 

Where can people purchase your work?

People can shop my website www.ttheasylumm.com or DM me directly on instagram. I'm a one woman show so sometimes a formal shop update is low on the list. I'll be doing a Drip Drop in February, after I have solidified my staples and gotten patterns graded and ready for production. Preorders late January babes.

Whats one thing you'd like to design that you havent done yet?

Honestly, my mind is on lingerie and gloves. I'm having loads of fun with pants and I love a cut out pocket, but I want to also do some lingerie and gloves. 

When youre not creating what are you doing?

If I'm not creating I'm learning, or absolutely dead to the world because my batteries died and I passed out. I am constantly working on something or drawing or sewing or lately doing pattern math and watching runway. I don't take relaxation, relaxation takes me. It's a total problem but also it's the nature of the beast right now, and I'm grateful to be hungry. I like rollerskating and am always down to go spend the day in the woods with a steak and a campfire, and a block though. 

Favorite area of Denver?

Favorite area of Denver? I mean I'm partial to the parking lot at Lincoln and 17th. I also like to be in Jacob's chair at As Above So Below Tattoo.  I split my street favor between Colfax and Federal.The real truth is I'm not outside, I'm in the slaughterhouse (aka my studio) in Globeville.

What was the last show you saw live?

Last show I saw live was Scowl, Whispers, Nuovo Testamiento, Direct Threat and Sunami - It was dope, but the youths have started doing aerials in the mosh pit and I think that is atrocious behavior. Next up: SEX MEX.

How would you feel if the internet disappeared tomorrow?

I would feel so good. Are you kidding me? I'm stuck in Jan 1, 2000 when the internet didn't break like it was supposed to. While I love being able to tour the world via music, I'm here for real human connections again.  

?Anything on your mind?

There are some things, and I've rewritten this a million times. I do have a lot to say but I think the short of it is, if you are holding this mag and reading this, you already care about the arts and supporting the people out here hustling full time, creating full time, but I personally want you to know that in this country the continual act of making art and creating for a living is a statistical improbability, but nothing you see would exist without the arts.  That is imbalance af and that is why supporting the artists out here doing it still is more important than making sure you get the next Stanley cup or another Shein haul. (vom) Most of us question our whole existence and all our choices every day, I know I do, especially in the internet age when clicks and expedited shipping costs buy you complete ignorance at how much time something actually takes to make.  I don't want to compete with fast fashion or pixel smoothers, I want to be appreciated for the attention I spent on making sure my work, both the fashion and the works on paper, honors the past 3000 years of the craft as well as invites modernity to make itself at home among tradition, and I kind of want to make you throw up a little looking at and thinking about all the tiny tiny details I carve with a 1.5mm v gouge. So thanks for spending time reading this and spending time consuming art that we are tirelessly and tirefully creating for our own souls and for yours. Also feel free to stop by the Slaughterhouse aka GRACe and see what I'm cooking, I'm in the building with the eyeballs on it. Oh and before I forget I have a solo show up this month (Jan) in the gallery at GRACe, reception date TBA - just follow along on socials for updates.