Me
​I had a life-forming expatriate childhood and adolescence in Paris. 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.
Being an artist
Words. Translation. Illegibility. Poetry. Threads and needles. Weeds. Unloved dolls. Anthropology of art. Surrealism. Pushing and blurring boundaries. Revising the history of women in art. Museums. Land Art. The art of place. Making our voices heard.
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Foraging objects and transforming them to materials is the process behind my mobiles, installations, paintings and artists’ books. The material drives the idea and the process. The visual poetics of ekphrastic and asemic writing, codes and symbols are central to my work. I collect the odd, the tarnished and rusty, handmade textiles and ephemera. In my studio, I build worlds of curious objects and ideas that speak to each other.
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Our stories can be told out loud, in writing, and visually. This is an organic process which requires curiosity and endless attention.
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
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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
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