my projects are visual love letters to the West’s living landscapes and the creatures who call them home...
🌾 I make art in the Sonoran Desert, home to the Tohono Oʼodham people, and in the Bay Area, home to the Lisjan Ohlone + Bay Miwok peoples. 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.
my creative work explores what it means to dream with place. this is an old songline whose notes stretch back through all of our ancestors’ intimately-tethered relationships with land. for me, this song weaves its way back 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, of course, until it started happening to me, sometimes in confusing ways. now I look to it as a north star and a creative compass.
my projects begin in the imaginal dark of sleep, in dreams, or while walking outside, 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,” dominator matrixes and regenerative cultures of place, 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 (descents, debris, sometimes dead things) into art.
my creative sensibilities owe much of their resilience and spirit to my experience in ceremony on and with the land, and to the many guides — human and more-than-human — who have helped me jump high enough to glimpse the sacred mountains, and not forget they are there. I have trained as a wilderness rites of passage guide with to the School of Lost Borders, a magical and many-limbed guide collective headquartered in Payahuunadü (the Owens Valley), and am honored to support this deeply regenerative ceremony in partnership with my dear friend and co-guide Annette. we have begun guiding wilderness ceremonies in the Sierras this year.
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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 Kitkitdizzi in Nevada City and at Kiko on 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 graphic designer, illustrator and cartographer (maker-of-maps) 🗺 learn more.
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