My life experiences have brought me to a place where I find myself driven to create art about who I am, and what moves me. After the traumatic loss of my mother, I suppressed most of my thoughts and feelings until I picked up a camera in my late thirties. Often building sets by hand to create  intimate, emotive and evocative self portraits, or plunging below the water’s surface, or collecting trash and turning it into art, I create images that reflect ideas and emotions that viewers are drawn to regardless of their personal journeys