Before the gallery, before the paintings, before Phatty Bee — there was a scribble.

When Aaron Carey was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he didn't pick up a paintbrush because he was an artist. He picked it up because he needed somewhere to put what he was carrying. What started as a way to problem-solve — how paint moves, how color behaves, how a brush on a surface can quiet the noise — became something he couldn't stop. Not because of the results, but because of what happened in the doing.

What came out of that process was a world. Abstract figures that bend and stretch like they're mid-step, mid-groove, mid-thought. Characters with a scribbled energy that feel alive even when the angles are off — because the feeling is always right. Faces in motion. People, mostly, because people are what it is. He sees musicality in the way they move, hold themselves, talk. He paints that.

The name Phatty B. started as a gaming username. It grew into a character — a bee named Phatty Bee who believes in himself, who comes from a world of love and empathy. A character built to incite belief, kindness, and acceptance in everyone who encounters him.

From 25 years of navigating MS, creativity, and the daily practice of building something real came The Scribble Method — not a productivity system, but a philosophy. A way of getting off zero, staying the course, and becoming who you're building yourself to be, through the most honest form of creation that exists.

Every painting in this gallery started the same way. A breath. A mark on a page. A scribble.

That's where everything begins.