As a female artist living in the Appalachia for the last 15 years, I’ve become intrigued by the tensions that exist here and my relationship to them: the rural and the urban, decay and ‘progress’, technology and history, and of course the shifting tides of what it means to be a woman in America, particularly the complexities of womanhood in a place like the American South.  I think of my style of work as “Southern Futurism.”​

Southern Futurism explores these tensions via large-scale digital collage printed on archival paper “scrolls.”  These long, rectangular pieces evoke the narratives found in Asian storytelling scrolls and the ancient talismanic scrolls found in various cultures, from Buddhism to Christianity. At the same time, the work is deeply influenced by Street Art, and the dense layering that occurs when an urban wall is painted and pasted over repeatedly.  The horizontal aspect ratio evokes the sensation of passing a long wall that has been marked and layered with imagery over time.

I love the forgotten corners, the secret gardens, the ephemera, the attics.  The drawers in an old desk, the shoebox full of letters.  My current work is digital collage printed on canvas. The subject matter explores themes of memory, time, sacred geometry and the collective unconscious.  My work is inspired by religious artifacts of various kinds, and artists such as  Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Renee Stout, and Swoon.I have been a psychotherapist for 15 years. My work as a therapist and my work as an artist are intertwined in that both explore the subconscious, the meaning and symbolism we attribute to the events in our lives, and the process of suffering/death and redemption/rebirth that are common experiences for us all.​​ BA | 1994 | Bennington College, Bennington, VTMajor: Painting & Drawing Minor: Psychology​MS cum laude | 2005 | Florida International UniversityMajor: Counseling Psychology​