I celebrate the mystery that makes life both breathtaking and confounding. Within my art, complexity is a call to action, an invitation to come together to face the challenges before us.

I make art out of the stuff of our lives.  From books to discarded clothing, I create layered, cellular, highly textural pieces that question what we value and how this plays out in the world around us.  Finished with a nontoxic, reflective varnish, my art provokes a closer look at what lies below the surface.

Increasingly drawn to books and textiles, I’m currently creating MAPS, pushing the boundaries of both materials while questioning our conceptions of self and other.

My affinity for language brought about MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY in 2023, a series titled after and referencing important books of poetry, in which I explore the complexities of our connections to one another through the context of clothing and textiles.

In 2022, I constructed MIRRORS out of Essence Magazine and pressed roses over mirrors, as a call to address bias and willful blindness in myself and others.  

From 2019 through 2021, I created MARGINALIA from encyclopedias, which examines the changes in how we think about and share information and asks wall-sized questions about where we’re headed and what we want to create. 

Born in Oregon in 1979, I grew up making art of all kinds but never imagined it could be a career.  Instead, inspired by a great high school teacher, I went to college to become a physics professor.  I studied math and science without particular interest until I took a semester off to travel to Nairobi, Kenya.  There, teaching high school math in an orphanage in Dagoretti Corner and traveling solo throughout the Kenyan countryside, I developed a desire to find work that honored the experiences and people I encountered.

After returning home, I finished my degree studying creative writing, again influenced by a teacher I greatly admired who helped me to see art as an incredible force in our world.  When I came back to visual art using things from everyday life, I could see a path before me, one that encompassed my ongoing need for work of breadth and purpose. My particular art is a product of this journey.  Its process is ever-evolving.  Its substance is the stuff of our lives.