I have painted murals, modeled for artists, designed book covers, blown glass dildos, spun and hand built pottery, participated in Blair Witch parody videos that made it to Kazaa, performed monologues, drawn portraits, handmade and handbound paper books, written hundreds of haikus, baked and topped cakes with fondant sculptures, woven with lego, manufactured massage bars, poured latte art, forged rings, felted earrings, crocheted sweaters and hats and scarves and mittens, coiled tip jars, animated flash buddhas, coded websites!

What I am doing as an artist is on one level satisfying a primal need.

On another I am sifting and unearthing options, resources, and interests.

On another I am experimenting with the traditions, customs, and techniques made available for contemporary use by today's global culture. This communion is very pleasurable for and important to me. It is a massive collaboration in which we are all invited and inherently participators. I am so blessed to be a part of this period of history when all cultures unfold into each other. It is a precious time.

I use artistic techniques to learn about a culture, and then to modify culture.

I am most inspired when I have limits. A palette. A set of skills and tools. I am totally empty when I am poised in front of a white sheet of canvas or paper; to me that's meditative, not creative. But the predetermined palette of natural dyes... the intersection of coffee and milk and cup... the combination of music and time and india ink and printer paper and a toothbrush and calligraphy brushes and a Q-tip... the structures of stitches and yarns... totally inspires me. Discovering this has allowed me to do whatever I love.

My favourite artists are, first and foremost, nature; then Gustav Klimt, Ernst Haeckel, Edouard Manet, Frida Kahlo, and an ever-growing register of contemporary beings, some of whom I've referenced to. My favourite art movements are impressionism and right now, the mosiac global opportunity that produces spriteish African harpists in California.

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