Originality is a myth I no longer chase. Everything I create is a response to life as it unfolds around and within me. My work rises from lived realities, from assumptions, from fragments of memory that surface unrestrained. Often, my unconscious and subconscious do the choosing before I am even aware. They guide my hands, my gestures, my mark-making. Each piece is shaped by more than the present- it carries the sediments of what has been and the longing for what might come.

I have participated in 2 group exhibitions and my first solo exhibition here in the US! To add to the laurels, the Grinnell College Museum o