I make art out of the stuff of our lives.  I create layered, cellular, highly textural pieces that question what we value and how this plays out in the world around us. 

Increasingly drawn to books and textiles, my current work pushes the boundaries of both materials while celebrating the breadth of the human spirit.

More generally, my art explores the complexities of our connections to one another, examining the changes in how we think about and share information and how this informs 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 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.  With this in mind, I came back to visual art using things from everyday life. I could now 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.