open space architecture
punta cana
baldwin hills
baldwin hills framework
fields point
downtown concord
selections

photographs
i’ve dreamed of this house
irish rubbish
hip shots
irish countryside
suburban splendor

drawings
indexing movement
lichen drawings
nude drawings

installations
wax tent
cones
wallets for stealing
thank you shoes
teabag sketches
rain catcher

about
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I am a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and have studied and worked in the fine art, landscape architecture, and graphic design fields. In 2009, I received a Master in Landscape Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I had an unusual undergraduate education, which has given me a strong interdisciplinary background. In 2002, I received a B.A. with a focus in Environmental Studies and Ethnography from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. In 2004, I received a B.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2001-2002, I spent a year abroad in rural Ireland focusing on a significant studio practice at the Burren College of Art.

As an artist my work often explores the point where public and private space become blurry or revealed, and how intention changes within various spatial contexts. The human body and its relation to space, movement and time is often an underlying driver of my work. I am constantly considering the sociology of space, layers of history and the perceptions of space as a personal identifier.

I grew up in a family whose love of plants can only be described as fanatical and I have significant knowledge of both ornamental and native plants of the West. I am interested in a multitude of things surrounding fine art, public space, sociology of design, branding of places, environmental systems, ethno-botany, phytoremediation, storm water systems and the evolution of sustainability. I would consider myself an open-minded collaborator and a believer of the design process.