I grew up in Paris, France. My brother remembers (I don't) that the day we moved in to our house, our mother gave us each one franc and sent us to town to explore. We were 10 and 7. My dad drove us all over Europe and my mom read the Michelin guide out loud to tell us about what we were seeing. I've lived in France, Germany and countless states in the U.S., and I'm now living happily ever after in a log cabin on top of a mountain in Colorado. I'm a city girl, too, and make significant detours to see art. Transience leads to adaptation. Language, seeing, cultural exploration and acceptance, thirst for discovery and the desire to write, learn, make, record and celebrate is my art de vivre.
My work
Words. Translation. Illegibility. Poetry. Threads and needles. Weeds. Bones. Unloved dolls. Anthropology of art. Surrealism. Revising the history of women in art. Museums. Land Art. Pushing and blurring boundaries. Making our voices heard.
I work across textile/forlorn object sculpture, installation, and book structures, bringing together natural and human-made objects, textiles, fragments of language, and materials that have outlived their original purposes.
I am drawn to the unexpected relationships between things, to what is visible and what remains hidden, and to the possibilities that emerge when familiar materials are taken apart and reimagined.
In my studio, I build worlds of curious objects and ideas that speak to each other.
Muses
Paris
Maeght Foundation
Chateau de la Napoule
Mirtha Dermisache
Burning Man
Anselm Kiefer
Ghost Ranch
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Rainer Maria Rilke
Anderson Ranch
Andrea Gibson
Clark Art Institute
Anni Albers
Chateau la Coste
Leonora Carrington
Grand Lake Artspa
Foire de Chatou
T.S.Eliot
Petroglyphs
Chartres Labyrinth
Every labyrinth
Taos, New Mexico
Spiral Jetty
Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Virginia Woolf
The Sistine Chapel
Fondation Carmagnac
Louise Bourgeois
Art Brut
Prune Nourry
Adrienne Rich
Petroglyphs
Bookshelf
The Poetics of Place - Gaston Bachelard
Lines - Tim Ingold
Walking the Sacred Path - Lauren Artress
A Flash of Lightning in the Dark - Dalai Lama
The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
Outside Over There - Maurice Sendak
Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Asemic Writing - Peter Schwenger
With Her Own Hands - Nicole Nehrig
Making a Life - Melanie Falick
Care of the Soul - Thomas Moore
Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung
Power and Presence - Jordan Wolfson