While growing up in Greece, she liked to draw a lot, but because of the lack of economic opportunities, she decided to cast aside her aspirations of becoming an artist and decided to go into the tech field. She studied computer programming, which in turn led to a life in blogging, animation, and eventually, filmmaking. Combining the latter two, she filmed a number of music videos for local artists in the Bay Area in 2012, and as she describes it, "collaging kind of came naturally after that.