I spent years as a career counselor, mostly at a university, mostly being very good at asking other people the questions I didn't realize I was avoiding myself. Somewhere in there I lost my parents. Then my best friend. And if you've ever experienced that kind of loss, you know: it has a way of loudly clearing its throat and asking exactly what the hell you're waiting for.
 

So I stopped waiting. I made art — the thing I'd been doing my whole life even when I called it "just a hobby". I spent four months traveling solo through Bali, Thailand, Mexico, Spain, and Portugal, partly for the adventure and partly to prove to myself I could do it. (I could. There was that time I almost got taken out on the side of a mountain in Nusa Penida because some dude decided it was a good idea to rock climb in flip flops, but we don't need to get into it.)
 

My work is bold, bright, and meaningful — like the life I'm building. I make patterns, illustrations, mandalas, and public art: some of it steeped in ancient pattern, folk traditions, and sacred geometry, and some of it just deeply committed to being whimsical and fun. Making things is a compulsion I finally gave up fighting.

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I care a lot about things like human rights, the environment, and tearing down systems that pit people against each other — and the vision is that more of that conviction will find its way into the work itself. The illustrations and murals are the artifact. The point of view is the point.

 

A lot of my inspiration comes from folk art — the art of everyday people. Before art lived in galleries, it lived on doorways, dishes, quilts, and walls: made by hand, passed down, meant to be used and lived with. That's the tradition I want my work to belong to. I believe art is for everyone, and that each of us is creative in our own way — that's why it matters to me that my work lives where everyday people will actually run into it. Art shouldn't be something you have to buy a ticket for.

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If any of this resonates — the work, the story, or the general vibe of someone who left the sensible job for something less conventional — stick around. There's a blog where I think out loud, a shop if you want to wear the art to yoga, and a contact form if you'd like to work together.