About

I am a pioneering, mutant Daughter of the Revolution, an artist, permaculture educator, and community organizer living in Alger, Washington, within the Samish Watershed and the Chuckanut Mountain Ridge. For more than twenty years, I have cultivated a forest garden, practiced water sovereignty, and helped grow local food systems and neighborly networks. As a descendant of early American colonists and a third-generation Washingtonian, I am deeply interested in questions of belonging, inheritance, ecology, and our relationship to place.

As a mutant, I am intimate with the improv jazz of life. Born with tremors, hearing loss, and bone disease, I have spent a lifetime navigating limits while discovering the unexpected possibilities they contain. Art has become both a compass and a survival practice, helping me move through experiences of pain, misdiagnosis, intergenerational trauma, and transformation.

I discovered paper cutting in 2008. The pressure required to guide an X-Acto knife steadies my quaking hands and quiets the energetic turbulence within my body. Through this process, I enter into conversation with the patterned forces that shape both the natural world and human experience.

My work combines hand-cut paper, mushroom prints, and botanical impressions gathered from the forests and gardens where I live. Using forms found in nature, I explore the relationship between inner and outer landscapes, memory and ecology, self and environment. Like ancient artists who used cave walls as thresholds between worlds, I see art as a living dialogue between the material and the unseen.

In addition to my studio practice, I have worked extensively in food sovereignty, permaculture education, watershed stewardship, and community organizing throughout Northwest Washington. These experiences continue to shape my understanding of resilience, reciprocity, and cultural evolution.

I hold a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Western Washington University, along with certifications in sustainable agriculture, permaculture design, and advanced permaculture teacher training. Through both my art and community work, I seek to cultivate deeper relationships between people, place, and the patterns that connect us.