my name is comet &

i’m a place-based artist
and eco-somatic guide 🌀


🌾 I live and work in the Sonoran Desert, homelands of the Tohono Oʼodham and Pascua Yaqui peoples; and in the Bay Area, home to Lisjan + Bay Miwok tribes. I honor native peoples’ continuing connection to land, water, and community, and I support LAND BACK as our collective way forward.



what does it mean to be dreamt by the land? have you felt it?

as an artist and an eco-somatic guide, my work roots along the shimmering edges where our bodies meet the lands that hold us.

whenever possible, I work with materials gathered with permission from place — rock and mineral pigments, mud, trash, charcoal, creekwater, volcanic stone.

animated by magic, deep listening, and synesthesia (I perceive sound, language, and touch in color), my work seeks to integrate the invisible strata of memory and magic held within landscapes — inner, outer, both.  

as a scorpio sun / gemini moon / aquarius rising, I feel most like myself when I am engaged in polyphonic, multi-species conversations with place and collaborating closely with underworld landscapes — and with friends.



I am honored co-create land-based gatherings in the Sonoran Desert, the Sierra Nevada, and the Bay Area in collaboration with:

Midnight Sun — a collective exploring emergence and creativity through deep listening with place. 


nightvisions — an experimental land-based project inviting creative, collective inquiry into night in the Sonoran Desert — the practice of being with the night and with “the long dark” we now face (Francis Weller). supported by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation and MOCA. more info to come.

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I’ve shared my work at Burning Man, SFMOMA, California Academy of Sciences, Bay Area art events, and Joshua Tree Music Festival. I sell art at Warm Shape in Tucson, Kitkitdizzi in Nevada City, and at Kiko on the island of Kauai. check out more of my current and past projects HERE.

I studied Anthropology and Creative Writing at Stanford and received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Sierra Nevada University in Lake Tahoe. I trained as a rites of passage guide with the School of Lost Borders, a magical and many-limbed guide collective headquartered in Payahuunadü (the Owens Valley), and am currently training as a somatic ecotherapeutic guide. 

click here for my CV 📄