"Drip Drip" Photograph

I am a disabled multidisciplinary artist and designer and parent to two rescue cats and a labradoodle. I am from the Northeast US originally and currently located in Toronto, Canada where I do my work from my home studio. My art is greatly inspired by history, genealogy, Place-Memory, the Spirit World and the unconscious mind. I work in a variety of media ranging from illustration to experimental photography and video art and I greatly enjoy mixing media and techniques.

My MFA thesis explored the question: how does water act as an inter-dimensional portal to the Spirit World? I further examined this through the cultural lens of how water acts as a boundary and amplifier for the Spirit World. I answered this question through a thesis paper and an exhibition that was an immersive installation of cyanotype sculptures and experimental video projections.

I am a queer, white artist, and a descendant of settlers toTurtle Island. My ancestors were Mormon, Atheist, Jewish and Christian. They came from Celtic Nations (Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Cornwall), Germany, England (early New England colonies) France (by way of Quebec), Norway, Sweden and Finland (Sápmi). I am greatly inspired by family stories, both those told by blood relatives and other extended family and chosen family. I am particularly interested in how migration and dislocation impact the following generations, which traditions are carried and which are cast off or kept secret.