🌾 I create art in the Sonoran Desert, homelands of the Tohono Oʼodham and Pascua Yaqui peoples; and in the Bay Area, home to Ohlone + Bay Miwok peoples. I support  indigenous resurgence, indigenous sovereignty, and LAND BACK as our collective way forward. I honor native peoples’ continuing connection to land, water, ceremony, + community.

what does it mean to dream with the land? this is an old songline whose notes carry back through all of our ancestors’ intimately-tethered relationships with place. for me, this song weaves its way to the British Isles, where my ancestors dreamed with and were dreamt by the land in a reciprocal conversation that informed everything. I didn’t know this until it started happening to me, sometimes in confusing ways. now I look to this sort of dreaming as my creative compass.  

my projects begin outside, in the imaginal dark of sleep, or in dreams, and are nourished by practices of deep listening, dream + story mirroring, pigment foraging, and my perceptual experience as a multi-modal synesthete (I perceive music, text, and touch in color).

I am transfixed by edge-places where worlds combine: industry and “nature,” inner and outer landscapes, realms of living and dying. I love the  alchemy of artmaking, and feel most like myself when I am turning underworld materials into art.


I am honored to be offering seasonal, rites of passage ceremonies in the Sierra Nevada foothills in partnership with my dear friend and co-guide Annette. together, we are Midnight Sun (website coming soon!)

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I’ve shared my work at Burning Man, SFMOMA, California Academy of Sciences, Bay Area art parties, and at 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 Interdisclipinary 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 pursuing an Advanced Training Certificate in Ecopsychology. 

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