My work explores the inherent beauty that arises from the passage of time, both the natural and tragic dissolution found in nature and the human body, and the impermanence of all living things. In my early 20’s my father was dying of cancer and I was seeing this life-death- transformation happen rapidly in his body in a short period of time. It was the same transformation seen in leaves and flowers as they go through their life cycle. The internal structure of his body became more visible through his skin and the light within faded. The weight of his body remained while something intangible was set free. I questioned how something could grow internally without one knowing it leaving a desire in me to make visible, like an xray, what is otherwise hidden and to try to stay connected to the part of him that was set free. I have a degree in Industrial Design and a minor in Sculpture so I fluctuate between creating work that is a cross between art and functional objects. Over the years I designed and developed a flexible fabric that I call ‘lightskins’ and use it to create my lighting, sculpture, and video installations. I consider my material to be a kind of skin that holds the memory of a transformation that has taken place and tells a story when illuminated from within. Currently I am working with light and shadow and how it can affect our experience in relationship to time.

2021-2 Artist in Residence Boulder Creative Collective

2005-2024 Gyrotonic movement educator/trainer for dancers

2006-2021 started my own brand of leather goods and jewelry

2005-2012 designed and metal smithed jewelry for Angie Star Jewelry

1997-2001 Apprentice to Melissa Michaels’ Surfing the Creative; dance and the expressive arts-

1998-9 Collaborative multi media performance piece, Fiske Planetarium

1996 Designed and patented a flexible fabric called “lightskins”

1996 Mystic Scenic Studios, Inc., Dedham, MA: sculpted, cast, painted murals and backdrops.

1995 Apprentice to Charles Ross, a land artist/architect, NYC, New Mexico

1995 Apprentice to Christopher Janney, a sound artist/architect, Lexington, MA

1994 UJIMA project, RISD/Miami, Florida: co-designed a refugee housing unit

1994-5 Teachers assistant, RISD: for 2-D and 3-D design classes

1994 Assistant to Michael Scheiner, a glass artist, Providence, RI

1993 Elkus Manfredi Architects, Ltd., Boston, MA

1992 Robert Kleine Gallery, Boston, MA