art you can't get at Pottery Barn.

ARTIST + PHOTOGRAPHER | AUTHOR | CURATOR

All of my works are limited editions + originals. 

I create a maximum of 13 editions of any single piece. Or just one.

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👉Who is my ideal client?  Who do I work with?

👉What's the 'why' behind my artwork? 

I have a mission to show others how to face their pain and see themselves for who they really are.

I developed this mission from facing my own debilitating pain every month living in hell with endometriosis for over 17 years. I was told it was all in my head by multiple doctors, went through surgery, a series of birth controls, and have actually crossed over to the other side from the agonizing pain.

The pain began to be so intense that I passed out and died– I was completely powerless and felt complete surrender. After dying, I knew that I needed to start honoring & listening to my body, and could no longer hide or be embarrassed by it if I wanted to truly live. I realized I needed to see myself for who I really was and face all of the areas in my life where I had been inauthentic.

So in late 2019, I began to unravel all of the medical lies I had believed and educated myself on how women’s hormones actually work and healed myself.

I learned through my experience that all healing starts with being authentic.

I would come to realize later on that we can’t even recognize what it is that we really want until we experience the unwanted. That contrast gives birth to us feeling the joy from our own desires.

👉 Every Phase Series

My experience inspired me to actually live my art, so I created an ongoing 13-year art series (will finish in 2033) about it called, Every Phase, where I powerfully illustrate how I healed myself as I live by the phases of the female cycle infradian rhythm clock in contrast to the masculine, 24-hour clock or 'everyday' lifestyle. 

The artwork shows what's happening in the brain and the body during each phase and reveals how to biohack & leverage this energy in your life. This series was inspired by and also serves as a direct response to NFT artist Beeple's $70 million 'Everydays' project:  I decided to create a piece of art from start to completion not every day, but every phase that will continue for the next 13 years.

I am actually living the art, so this series is about way more than just healing.  The writing + pieces discuss truth, freedom & our current healthcare & financial system slavery -- and the way out.

👉 Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself

I have self-published the first year of this series as a printed art book with Augmented Reality (AR) interaction.  The award-winning book captures the first year and I have very appropriately titled it, Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself. 

In addition to the book, I have also created an accompanying podcast (same name: Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself or #FYSHY) to help other women dealing with 'chronic' pain and hormonal imbalances by introducing some of the experts and practices that helped me achieve what I thought was impossible. 

This isn't just a project, but a #FYSHY movement. Check out the brief video below to learn more.

To read my full story, check out my About page as well as my Every Phase Gallery below & subscribe to follow the series as I create through each phase.

In addition to my Every Phase series that will continue until 2033, I have 5 additional visual journeys I have curated, with each body of work to be explored in the galleries & collections below:

THE REBEL | THE RAW | THE BALLERINA | SOUL PORTRAITS | THE GARDEN PARTY

👉 Scanography

Upon completion of my Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) & my Masters (MA) from SCAD-Atlanta, I invented my own photographic process with scanography. The process I developed started as a mockery of digital photography because I was so pissed about the digital 'takeover'. It also served as a technical tool to help express some of the concepts my work centered around with ballet which was a huge part of my life growing up.

When I decided to make work about my experience in the world of ballet, I thought of the contradicting ideas of degradation, restriction, and freedom. Being constrained by the scanner for these projects, as well as the degrading aspects of digital manipulation, I was able to translate the ‘aesthetic experience’ of ballet into a degraded, virtual one. This allowed people to see a perspective from someone on the inside looking out, instead of the outside world trying to look inward. I wanted the subject to become the ‘negative’ which related to these ideas technically and conceptually. 

You can view examples of the scanography process I created dispersed throughout my work, but specifically concentrated in my 'Things I've left Behind', 'Scanography Soul Portraits' and 'The Ballerina' Galleries.

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👉When you purchase art from me or any of my services, a percentage will be donated to stop human trafficking.

I have chosen to give 13% (why number 13? read here) of all my profits to Operation Underground Railroad to end child trafficking.  I have created a fundraiser goal to raise $13,000 by October 13th, 2024.  Donate + Learn more here.

Because God's children aren't for sale + Human Trafficking doesn't get to perpetuate in a world I'm in. 

When you purchase art or any of my services, you are helping this mission & our humanity.