I'm a Wisconsin-based artist working with themes of belonging, home ground and ecology.

My path began as a young teen when I saw twisting, dried-out roots of a shrub sticking out of an eroding sand bank on a Wisconsin lakeshore. There was something about the poignant gestures of those roots that fascinated and moved me. My thought at the time was ‘what do I do with all this?’. I discovered it was a question to be lived, not directly answered. Contemplating my connection to the nature around me became the thread that has run through my life.

The thread eventually led to an education in art, which began with darkroom photography, expanded into drawing and painting and years later became an MFA degree in visual art. Photography continued in the form of Polaroid, Holga, and  pinhole cameras. (I once won a Holga camera in a national Holga photo contest. That still makes me smile.)

A decade ago a digital photography workshop titled ‘Mindful Monochrome’ enticed me to dive back in and I soon recommitted to photography. It feels natural to be working with  my camera, watching the gestures and patterns of nature, immersing myself in its mystique and presence.