I am an artist living in Santa Cruz, California.
I graduated UC Berkeley in 1994 with a double major in Art and Computer Science, merging my lifelong devotion to making art and my innate tendencies to be methodical and analytical.
In Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Suzuki Roshi writes "Nothing exists but momentarily in its present form and color." Making art is my meditation of those moments in form, color, light and shadow.
I am embarking on new adventures, exploring new mediums, and always learning...
“The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes”
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
“If you want to see something, you should open your eyes.”
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
finally. 2020 was one big surreal blur of a year but it did bring into focus what truly is important. Hoping 2021 will be a year in which justice, kindness, empathy, compassion, wellness, love, and peace prevail.
Today I dropped off my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project at the post office and it is making its way to the Brooklyn Art Library...
I have always been intrigued by watercolor. Its fluidity, its transparency, the organic ways the watercolor interacts with the paper... but the same things that intrigued me so, also seemed the most daunting.