Annabelle was born in Burlington, Vermont to a mother who could have told you they would become an artist. Annabelle, however, was not convinced. With interests shooting in all directions, a curiosity to explore their roots, and a yearning for adventure, at 16 years old, Aces moved to Augsburg, Germany, where they lived and learned as a youth ambassador with the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange. After returning to the US, they enrolled in an Early College Program at Castleton University, where they attended their first year of undergraduate studies. In 2021 they transferred to Clark University where they took their first sculpture course and began to understand that building objects has always been their form of expression.