Potlatch The Potlatch is a powerful process that draws inspiration from the ceremonies held by the First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest, but does not attempt to imitate or copy them. Instead, we use the idea of an initiation into our own deepest human purpose in...
In the summer of 2023, I invited some of my students and muses to participate in a series I was dreaming about related to edges. It seemed to me that all the conversations I was having with people were about edge - the edges we...
Summertime, and the living is easy… In the summer of 2023, I find myself increasingly interested in how the human form can both disappear in to, and stand out from, the natural world. Click on the photos to enlarge and see captions...
As I approach my 45th birthday, I jokingly laid out for myself the project of documenting what it feels like to be halfway to dead. I say this with all the zestful freedom and all the terror this nihilistic turning point can offer. I have...
As I look through my oeuvre, I find this theme over and over again. Women, reaching for the light above, around, inside, underneath and over themselves, seeking a higher source, usually just outside the frame. It is something that penetrates all of the work I...
I have secretly been a painter for many years, though I have kept most of my work hidden, destroyed it, left it incomplete or given it away. I am working to change that, as painting was my first artistic love. I love to paint with...
I was asked by my dear friend Alexandra to teach on and photograph vulvas, and this lead me to an exploration of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and from there to her origin in the Aztec Tonantzin. I invited my muses to embody her, and this...
As a part of my Fall 2022 art portal series, which combines art making, movement, guided meditation, and culinary experiences, was focused on the Seven Deadly Sins, or as I like to say, the Seven Human Desires. The participants were invited to come in and...
Prints can be ordered for any of the images you see on the site, in any standard size. Prints are printed through Artifact Uprising and will be signed, numbered, and mailed to you. Prints can be framed. Pricing begins at $100....
The Venus of Urbino is a canonical painting from the 1500s by Titian. This work, in many ways, came to define the Italian Renaissance. I’ve always loved this painting, and have long wanted to create a homage and a reworking of this painting. As a...