My artistic practice…

…is first and foremost rooted in deep listening. I want to hear the natures around me, to know beings at their depths. I'm always wondering, "What's it like to be that being? That person? That creature? What do they long for? What stokes their aliveness? What's it like to be this drop of rain? A nudibranch? Crude oil? How would we relate if we had greater capacity to be fully present to each unique nature and our inter-connectedness."

Art is where I get to really ask these questions, and whether the answers live quietly or more audibly in the work, they are there, in my study of my subjects, in the art and in my own deepened my sense of what it is to be human, and beyond.

I'm often surprised by what I learn about the characters who emerge in my sculptures, environments, and plays. My own ideas about the world are transformed, and my understandings deepened. I feel deeply alive in this process, where the vast many relationships making up everything show themselves to me in new ways and permit me to give them shape, voice, form.

I want to give people a taste of this restored relatedness through my art. I want people to walk onward with renewed wonder or curiosity about other beings and themselves. Art-making is my sanctuary, and creative collaboration is where I have always found belonging. I’m always looking for ways to open this sanctuary to others, be it my collaborators or my audiences.

For most of my life, I was dedicated to narrative, literary, and somatic arts. Theater, film, musicals, poetry, song writing, dance. Sculpture is a more recent practices I’ve dedicated to in the last decade. I found my way there through pursuing participatory arts and experiential installations that could facilitate healing, connection. After creating numerous spaces installations that relied upon a large facilitation staff to create experiences and deliver narrative, I wanted to experiment with creating spaces, architectures and sculptures that could facilitate experiences on their own.

With new works in progress, my practice is currently playing at the edge of sculptural installation and immersive narratives, looking for ways to facilitate connections to the beyond human world through poignant interaction-rich sculptures and non digital, highly tactile immersive narrative worlds.