Artist Chloe Trujillo spoke to Cheddar News' Hena Doba about her inspiration as well as her belief that sustainability is crucial for the world.

<div class="block">Artist Chloe Trujillo has made a name for herself with her inspiring and spiritual artwork, which includes the designing of costumes for the U.S. artistic swim team. Her unique aesthetic blends creativity with math and science. She spoke to Cheddar News&#39; Hena Doba about her inspiration as well as her belief that sustainability is crucial for the world.</div>

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Artist and Designer Chloe Trujillo Explains How Math and Science Influence Her Inspiring Art

You know, we love speaking with women who are making waves in the field, you and I thrive on that. Well, recently I had the opportunity to speak with an incredible artist, was designing swimsuits for the Olympic artistic swim team. She's not just a designer though Chloe Trujillo is a painter, a musician and a world traveler. We spoke about how she views creativity and infuses her designs with positive energy. Why she believes art and science are interconnected and why sustainability is so important. Take a look, Chloe, you are such a citizen of the world. I imagine that you pick up inspiration from everywhere. But what is your inspiration for art? Well, I do pick up inspiration from my travels for sure. But my main source of inspiration is inside myself. Like I, I close my eyes, I get into this meditative space and to me it's always constantly flowing. So I feel like I'm a conduit and everything kind of chooses me and tells me what to do and what to create. Like all these elements or symbols that appear, become paintings, all words, melodies, become my songs and from that those creations, I have designs that come to my fashion as well. So tell me about some of the mediums. You're in my ultimate medium for painting is oils. But I do acrylics too. I paint on surfboards. I paint on guitars on different instruments, which I actually love to do. We also have to talk about how brilliant you are because you studied quantum mechanics. What made you choose that? And did it change your view of the world or your art in any way? When math at school became more abstract, I became fascinated by it and really good at it as well. And my father seeing that I was so good at it, kind of pushed me into these studies because he thought oh, as an artist, I might be struggling, I became really confused inside, you know, like I was just like, OK, what am I supposed to do? Because it's so different or is it a different as it seems to the outsider? Actually, I think it's very much connected when math became abstract or quantum physics, quantum mechanics, all that it just involves so much of the uh imagination part of the brain that to me it was very much connected to art. So you are incredible. Well, on top of everything else, let's talk about your collaboration with the Olympics, the aunt of one of the coaches for the Olympic artistic swim team. USA had contacted me to do dresses for her and then COVID hit. So I never made the dresses. And then during COVID, I get this strange text of the coach. Hi, I'm the niece of so and so, and I'm coaching the artistic swim team. I hope you answer my text. And I was like, is this a joke? Is this for real? But then I responded like, what if it's real? And then I met two coaches and that's how it started. I love their messages that they wanted to provide. It was for the environment and waters and the cleanliness of water around the world. I got really connected to that and they wanted something really artistic. I do want to talk about what's next because we have to talk about your sustainable fashion line. Why sustainability so important to you? Well, I mean, you see where the world is going out, we really need to do something and change uh and make more and more people aware of being more sustainable in everyday life. My mom is very aware of the importance of recycling upcycling, taking care of the planet in any way we could. Now, I'm teaching that to my kids now that we have more and more ways to, to recycle fabrics, recycle plastic, use different kinds of fibers, whether it's like pineapple apple fibers to create non leather goods. It's also science a little bit, a little bit of chemistry and finding the right way to use and reuse. Instead of filling out landfills, you're actually wearing one of your designs, which I noticed right in New York City. Tell us a little bit more about that. Well, all my designs, all the prints are made from my artwork. Every time I finish a painting, I get it photographed super high res and then to create any design, I make, I select different elements of different paintings. So it's not just the painting applied and I made it as a print and this is actually organic cotton. So I like to use, yeah. Eco conscious fabrics. What do you hope people take away from your art, whether it's through fashion or an actual painting? Well, for me, um I want to inspire others to be creative. I mean, that's my big goal and I know that I also studied a bunch of healing modalities working with energy. I talk about that a lot and um I actually use all my creations with that positive energy and hoping that people will receive it in a positive way. Well, I have to say your positivity radiates. I'm getting that skirt as soon as this interview is over Chloe. Thank you so much for making time for us and thanks to Chloe for chatting with me. She was such an artistic soul, literally, it just beamed out of her and she's involved in so many mediums, Kristen, like we mentioned painting clothing sustainability. She was amazing woman to talk to so amazing Hanna, how did you find her through a friend actually, she, like, you should meet this woman Chloe who's incredible, by the way. Fun fact, her husband is the bassist of Metallica. They've been married for over 20 years. So she comes from an artistic family, but sustainability has become one of her core focuses and it shows in her art, it's absolutely beautiful.