about

biography

(or, a reasonably lengthy documentation)

ejected from an irradiated hole in rural kansas and forced to fend for herself amidst flat desolate prairies during the winter of 1999, hazel mayoral promptly discovered the arts amid the wreckage of what was then colloquially known as “humanity.” driven by an exigent desire to spill her brains out onto canvas and free herself from the burden of artistic delusions, she would spend her formative years exploring different avenues of creative release. these experiments ranged from exercises in stop motion animation using miniscule construction bricks to digital art pieces combining cartooning placed on top of photographs sourced from the ruins surrounding her. ultimately though, comics are what have retained her interest the longest.

comics as a medium have proven the most adept at allowing hazel to explore her fascination with narrative structure. having consumed several longform stories as an adolescent, her brain has rotted beyond reason, contorting itself into a shape fixated with “plot beats” and “thematic action” as a way of expanding upon ideas. page and panel arrangement in particular provide a creative freedom that other formats such as film or creative writing by itself cannot allow for. it is because of this that hazel insists on spreading most of her ideas onto sheets of bristol board.

while now physically based in colorado, hazel is primarily a visual artist “based in the internet.” currently, you can find her work on twitter, youtube and instagram under the handle “almighty axolotl.”