Currently residing and working in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, I am a contemplative artist, poet, and advocate living with Neuromyelitis Optica, a rare autoimmune disease predominantly affecting my optic nerves and spinal cord.

I paint both using my eyes through eye gaze technology and also my mouth to hold the pen or brush. Through my practices of Lectio/Visio Divina and Mindfulness Meditation, drawing is experience with words as beings of color, shape, texture, and voice.

I am inspired by how art holds space to receive, absorb, and uncover suffering, joy, and community; all while discovering capacity for safety and grace. There is no, one story within my work. Line quality is created out of experience and composition emerges as the woven motions of my heart’s beat.