I am a visual artist, educator, listener, and gatherer. I create because it is where I find understanding and peace.

At the heart of my work is listening. I believe in the power of being witnessed - to have someone stay present with your story without needing to fix it, explain it, or make it different. Sometimes what we need most is not an answer, but a place to speak and someone willing to hear us.

My life and work have brought me into many different spaces of learning, making, teaching, healing, and gathering. Along the way, I have come to trust the quiet power of presence, creativity, and human connection. This has led me to create opportunities for people to gather through stitching, bookmaking, walking, contemplation, conversation, and shared experience, to slow down, connect, and give their stories a place to live.

My artwork grows from this same place.

My work is a practice of returning to what has been carried, what has been lost, and what remains. I work with cloth, reclaimed materials, and objects I gather along the way. These materials already have a history: they have been worn, mended, forgotten, or set aside. I make slowly, allowing them to lead me. I am less interested in declaring than in witnessing, paying attention to what is already there and allowing something to unfold.

Grief, memory, ritual, and the passage of time are woven through my work. Making has become a form of devotion: a way of tending to what is fragile, honoring what has been loved and lost, and trusting that something meaningful can emerge from what we carry.

I believe our stories may be the most powerful thing we have to give. When we share them through our artwork, or simply listen to one another, what we carry does not have to be carried alone.

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