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My earliest memories are of a lake in upstate New York — mossy woods, clear water, and fields that began where our yard ended and kept going. I was five, and I did not visit that place so much as belong to it.

I would dangle my toes from the dock and wait for my fish friends to rise and greet me. I believed we were in kinship. What some may call magical thinking, I now understand as something older and truer: that we are deeply, inextricably woven into the world we inhabit. We have simply forgotten. My work is about remembering.

I grew up the youngest of five, and my mother has been my closest friend and most steadfast champion. She taught me that justice and love are not separate things — that showing up for what matters is the practice. That commitment lives in everything I make.

In kindergarten, my teacher Carol Barrows filled a room with light. She didn't teach so much as initiate — drawing us into experience: drawing, dancing, singing, tending living things. She understood that the body knows what the mind is still reaching for. I still learn this way. I still make this way.

Later, in a university classroom, Dr. David Carrasco opened another kind of door. His teaching on the sacred dimensions of human experience — the way ritual, symbol, and cosmology make meaning across cultures and centuries — named something I had felt but could not yet speak. That the world is not merely material. That the ordinary is threaded through with the holy. His words landed like recognition. They still do.

I have been graced by teachers who illuminated something essential in me — my mother, Carol, Dr. Carrasco — each one arriving at exactly the right threshold, each one pointing toward the same interior country.

In art school, my peers called my work delightfully weird. I took that in and recognized something important: my voice was distinct, and it was teaching me as I made. The willingness to surrender to a process, to follow what wanted to emerge — that is what ultimately finds resonance in others. If something I've made produces a moment of awareness, a shift in feeling, a small opening in someone's chest, I consider it a success.

I carry some heavy weight from childhood — experiences I had no language for until much later. I have learned to call my heightened sensitivity what it is: a gift. It comes as visual acuity. It makes me attuned to what others are feeling, and what I am feeling. In my work, it shows up as tenderness — a willingness to look slowly, to witness carefully, to honor what is fragile and true.

I work in sculpture, photography, drawing, and illustration. Sculpture is my soul place, where I feel most anchored — where I listen for what natural materials already want to become and participate in that becoming. The forms that emerge are an alchemy of my life experience forged with natural forms that enchanted me a a child. Photography and drawing are meditations. Illustration is joy and delight.

The undercurrent of my life is a single belief: that we are, at our foundation, connected — to one another, to the earth, to something sacred that moves through all living things. For me, the closest word for that power is love. My work is an invitation to remember that. To feel the kinship that is always already there, waiting beneath the surface of ordinary life.

In the end, if love is my legacy, I will have lived a meaningful life.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture • Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia • Athens, Georgia

Study Abroad • University of Gerogia Cortona Program • Tuscany, Italy

Student of Dr. Davíd Carraso, Studio Assistant to Delanie Jenkins • University of Colorado • Boulder, Coloraodo

Professional Certified Coach • CoachVille

Employment

Hello Wonder, Inc. • 2003 — Present
Microsoft • 2003 — 2012, 2024 — 2025

Referrals

Marketing consulting • LinkedIn

Skills

Photography
Drawing
Sculpture
Surface design
Stationery

Marketing consulting • LinkedIn

Press Archive

‘A movable fest — Strolling the funky Last Thursday scene is fun, but the anchor ultimately is art’, The Oregonian, by D.K. Row, 2003

‘Downtown Gallery Presents UGA Senior Exit Show’, Athens Banner-Herald, by Wendy Wolfenbarger, 1996

‘Spirituality ties diverse pieces in Clayton Street Gallery’s senior exit show’, by Shannon Frye, Athens, Georgia, 1996

Updated • March 2026