In 2019, a year into settling down in one place after many years of nomadic wanderings, I found myself in a state of deep questioning and introspection. This enduring exercise led me to turn to art as a form of release, and what began with a child’s art set and a tiny canvas quickly snowballed into obsession, culminating in over 200 paintings, drawings, and sketches depicting an attempt at conveying inner experiences that words cannot reach.

My grandparents are also artists. My mom has an art background, and my uncle’s an electronic music artist. Growing up among artists gave me an intimate look at how others turn to art to express stuff, but it would be a long time (until I turned 30), before the artist re-emerged and art became a major part of my life.

I am a Romanian-American self-taught artist whose works explore themes of alienation, freedom, magic, inner worlds, the construction of the self, and the liberation of the self, with inspiration drawn from medieval and renaissance art and fables. Blending my emerging art career with a life of exploration, I have painted the portrait of the leader of Tuvalu, created a public works mural in a tribal land in Vanuatu, and exhibited in London, New York, and Seoul.

In 2018, I co-founded Galactic Fed, a top 1% digital marketing agency, to bring a scientific approach to how we approach growing online revenue and optimizing products and services for search. Fully-bootstrapped from 0 to 150+ team members, recently celebrated our 600th customer.

I’m a digital nomad who greatly values freedom of mobility, so my entire career has been remote, and Galactic Fed is a fully remote company. We’re so passionate about the nomadic lifestyle and future of work that my co-founder Zach is writing a book about it!

I am a regular voice in the ongoing conversation surrounding the future of SEO, AI, and search.

I was the first Romanian national to reach Lac Tele with my co-founder and best friend Zach. Located in the northern part of the Republic of Congo, and the site of a legendary dinosaur-like cryptid, Lac Tele is one of the most remote lake regions in the world.

I’ve explored over 60 countries, and regard travel as a slow, overland pilgrimage, where you show up on the world’s doorstep and are sometimes invited in for a glimpse in how other people eat, cook, and live. My life has helped me play with many contradictions – refugee and successful entrepreneur, scientist and artist, Transylvanian and global citizen.