My work operates within a place of suspension. The materials find a place between part and whole, heavy and light, formless and formed, object and reflection. Turning plastic or metal detritus into a delicate mobile, cow dung into nebulae, trash into lace, magazine into ethereal colorscapes, my work values metamorphic movements. Sometimes the materials and how they become animated move me to a place of awe, of being suspended in time, or transported to a different place entirely. 

My mirror mosaic process consists of the shattering of mirrors, transforming image into fragments and reassembling into a disorienting whole. When looking into the mirror mosaic props, the viewer sees the world in pieces, unable to capture a whole picture yet seeing everything. In this process, the viewer’s image of themselves and of the world in the reflection is disrupted, shaken up, and therefore rearranged. I value the process of rearranging, of transforming through disorientation, of breaking down what needs to be broken. 

The process of breaking down and rebuilding mirror shards speaks to me of rupture and repair. In a world of endless rupture, systematic oppression, genocide, and an ethos of domination, the need for repair is evident. Yet what does that repair look like? In my work I ask that question and listen for a way forward. 

Using fabric and papier mache masks, I create life size puppets born of the archetypal and elemental beings that visit my body. Through slow, deliberate movement and ritual embodiment, these beings speak through my movements. They are expansive and arresting. They surprise me, guide me, animate me, and come from nowhere and everywhere at once. I create ritual theater to honor the sacred and carve out a space of transpersonal listening. 

Collaborative works I have curated and taken part in follow an ethos of collective intelligence. What is possible when everyone contributes their unique gift, no more and no less? What happens when a group moves as one organism comprised of diverse parts yet operating in concert with each other? What collective response and action to our world is possible when we are able to each bring our creative offering to the table in earnest, working across differences yet with shared value?

I am influenced by celtic mysticism and mythology, divination, transformative justice and abolitionism, interrogation of whiteness and structures of oppression, and animism.  I am inspired by the works of Angela Davis, Mariame Kaba, Bill Plotkin, Resmaa Menakem, Bayo Akomolafe, Joshua Michael Shrei, and John O’Donahue, to name a few of many. My mentors and teachers include Jonah Ruh Roberts, Marcy Curier, Ron Young, S.N. Goenka, Ingrid Askew, Gabrielli LaChiara, and Yogi Amandeep. 

My work, above all, nods to the value of relationship - relationship to nature, relationship to the unseen, relationship to ourselves, relationship to each other. When I share the puppets, I am bearing witness to my own relationship to each one, and in turn bringing others into that relationship.