painting. art jewelry. ivory free scrimshaw. poetry. performance.
Exploring voice, drama, dance and visual arts from a young age, living awkwardly in an atypical, queer body, I gravitated to martial arts as an inroad to what I was intuitively seeking. I studied visual art, philosophy/spirituality and somatics at Hampshire College where I was introduced to the umbrella of bodymind movement forms that remain core to my practice today. Through the 90's my work was primarily representational landscape/architecture. Working to locate and ground myself physically in place, I found plein air painting a permitted, albeit roundabout, means of connecting to the land . Attending massage school in 1999, a leap towards embodiment and dramatic change of landscape, I shifted creative focus to figure and began a series of self portraits inspired by the alphabet which became "In My Own Language". From 2015 to 2019 I trained in somatic based expressive arts at Tamalpa Institute, Kentfield, California, completing the project while continuing to navigate a highly uncertain breast cancer prognosis. Returning east post Covid 2021, I am leaning into performance and continuing work on "Finding The Ocean" a 365 found object jewelry journal project. I offer expressive arts, somatic therapies and education to individuals and groups.
Exploring voice, drama, dance and visual arts from a young age, living awkwardly in an atypical, queer body, I gravitated to martial arts as an inroad to what I was intuitively seeking. I studied visual art, philosophy/spirituality and somatics at Hampshire College where I was introduced to the umbrella of bodymind movement forms that remain core to my practice today. Through the 90's my work was primarily representational landscape/architecture. Working to locate and ground myself physically in place, I found plein air painting a permitted, albeit roundabout, means of connecting to the land . Attending massage school in 1999, a leap towards embodiment and dramatic change of landscape, I shifted creative focus to figure and began a series of self portraits inspired by the alphabet which became "In My Own Language". From 2015 to 2019 I trained in somatic based expressive arts at Tamalpa Institute, Kentfield, California, completing the project while continuing to navigate a highly uncertain breast cancer prognosis. Returning east post Covid 2021, I am leaning into performance and continuing work on "Finding The Ocean" a 365 found object jewelry journal project. I offer expressive arts, somatic therapies and education to individuals and groups.
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