Presently, I find my home and my wonder in the oak woodlands, redwood canyons, sage bluffs, and kelp forests of the Central Coast of California (land of the Rumsen Ohlone and Esselen people). I also belong to the big, soft dunes and hardwood forests of northern Lake Michigan (land of the Anishinaabe people).  As an artist, author and landscape architect, I live from a deep relationship to place. Everything I create is inspired through the radical intimacy I’ve spent my life joyfully reclaiming with our beloved Earth – trees and flora; soil and stone; rain, rivers, lakes and oceans; birds and fauna; whales; sun, moon and seasons; wind and sky; fire, snow and ice; every color and every pattern that evolution offers to our imagination… Alongside poet Mary Oliver, I truly feel that “My work is  loving the world,” and that, as agrarian author Wendell Berry states, hope for our world “all turns on affection.”

As an author, I am driven to explore the depths of our relationship to nature and place, ecological grief, displacement, and belonging. A fifteen year career in landscape architecture was spawned by early years hands-on in organic horticulture, ecological restoration, a BA in fine arts, aerial photography, and the influence of time in Italy. A breadth of rich experience in site and land use planning spans many geographies, sectors, unique clientele, and brilliant architectural collaborations. My present focus has become distilled to focus solely on meaning-making in place through therapeutic memorial and ritual landscape design, private and public art, and interpretive work.  My origins as a serial photographer still inform most of my two-dimensional artwork, which now includes pattern design, natural-dyed textiles, embossed prints, and simple woodworking. Everything I create is an invitation to reverence, wonder and kinship.