I am a mixed media artist and autodidact making story teller dolls and soft sculptures honoring myth and folklore, goddess and god, shadow and light, the mundane and the sacred in the totality of the human experience. My figures heal wounds, open rooms too long dark and forboding, beckon the beyond and expand one's vision.

I costume, bead, make ATCs, alter books and teach as well.

I make human forms because it pleases me. They have pooled my talents, extracted my memories, captured my essence and accompanied me through deep depressions, tragedy and loss, agony, pain and sorrow, towards a glimmer of hope and into absolute bliss.

I began my first little doll in conjunction with therapy to realize, name and recover from trauma. I found this sculptural experience powerful, satisfying and magical. I became able to communicate so much more than words could embody and set out to people the universe I wanted to and do live in, where vulnerability can be our greatest gift.

There are many, many faces of me and I continue to reveal layer by layer, bead by bead, more of myself.

My influences are Van Gogh, Miro, De Marco, Kahlo, MarsTokyo, Cornell, Niki de Saint Phalle and Marcie Stone.

The long version.....