Stretching Myself Print

My training in the visual arts began on both sides of the easel. While working as an artists' model and learning to draw the figure at a studio in New York City, I experienced pareidolia, or the tendency to see patterns in randomness. One day while taking a shower fallen pieces of hair came loose in my hand, and when I smeared them on the wall I saw the clear image of a woman's head. With a few strokes of my hands the rest of her body soon appeared. And so she began my private drawing practice. My hair drawings and prints have been exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles and Italy and have been acquired by private collectors in New York, L.A., Stockholm, and Rome.My poetry and essays have been published in journals including The Paris Review, Oxford Poetry, Catapult, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Review of English Studies, among many others. I currently divide my time between L.A., New York, and Italy.