In the Studio

I love making these giant flowers! My niece and her two roommates were nimble assistants. We made it through the morning heat in good spirits. Thank you to all the friendly...

Much of my recent work depicts snapshots of community borders. The video clip is an example of an event or many snapshots. Watch Video “Relocalization is a strategy to build...

“Reducing economic diversity may be efficient, but it also reduces resilience.” “….as regions specialize, there is an overall loss of local diversity in jobs.” -Richard Heinberg Do our avocados, T-shirts,...

Every day, the different types of lives connected in our systemic world are affected by our (human) actions. In this year-end blizzard, as I was considering the effects of flash...

In the daily risk we all take to engage another, we muster up the courage to interact. There is never a guarantee that the the meeting will be wonderful. But it...

We are always collaborating on our shared future.  We can choose to move forward, fully conscious, and educated about our actions or remain unconscious about our actions and keep the...

When my daughter was young, we would enjoy exploring early taxonomic classification and organize our little world into the preset categories of “Bear-like,” “Dog-like,” and “Cat-like.” We spent hours naming animals...

So, how do the big flowers fit into the art I make?   My deep love of nature began early in my youth. I was ecstatic to see photos of...