I am a trans-media storyteller, using painting, drawing, printmaking, creative writing, and comics to weave narratives of transformation and connection. I represent these stories through human, animal, and plant forms, depicting characters and environments that teeter on the edge of change.

I love the wet and squiggly things. Leopard slugs with their electric blue mating, cuttlefish with their gender bending camouflage of pulsating skin, even common garden snails in their quiet work of decomposition and violent “love darts”. These creatures are full of contradictions.

Contradictions are at the core of my practice. Anxiety, escapism, vulnerability, and hope permeate. I alternate between fiction and nonfiction, making drawings, paintings, and process-based pieces. The curation of audience experience is another key part of my practice. By slipping between media, subjects, and contexts, I create works that range from intimate hand-held comics to spectacular vision-engulfing paintings.

When humans are my main subjects, such as in my “Spiderweb Memories II” series, I explore the sensual, psychological, and vulnerable. When depicting humans together with flora and fauna, such as in my “Accidental Girl” series, I create intertwined, hallucinogenic, acid colored compositions that grapple with humanity’s entanglement in an unbalanced biosphere. When representing flora and fauna alone, which can be seen in both series, cycles of life, and humanity’s impact on said cycles, are explored.

My practice is influenced by Ursula K Le Guin and Octavia Butler’s fictional narratives, Donna Haraway and Rachel Carson’s creative scholarship, and the world building work of Trenton Doyle Handcock and Ellen Gallagher.