🌾 I make art in the Sonoran Desert, ancestral homelands of the Tohono Oʼodham nation and tribal lands of the Pascua Yaqui tribe; and in the Bay Area, home to the Ohlone + Bay Miwok tribes. I joyously support indigenous resurgence, indigenous sovereignty, and LAND BACK as our collective way forward. I honor native peoples as the original and ongoing stewards of the lands on which I live and work, and recognize their 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, lands of living and dying. I am interested in the inherent alchemy of artmaking, and feel most like myself when I am turning underworld materials into art.

my creative work owes much of its resilience and spirit to land-based ceremony. after training last summer with the School of Lost Borders, a magical and many-limbed guide collective headquartered in Payahuunadü (the Owens Valley), I am honored to be stepping across the threshold into offering seasonal, wilderness rites of passage ceremonies in the Sierra Nevadas in partnership with my dear friend and co-guide Annette.  

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I’ve shared my work at Burning Man, SFMOMA and California Academy of Sciences, Bay Area art parties, and at Joshua Tree Music Festival. I sell prints 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 also work as a freelance illustrator, graphic designer, and cartographer (maker-of-maps) 🗺  learn more. 

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