Regard this fleeting world like this: Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast-moving stream, like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass, like a candle flickering in a strong wind, echoes, mirages and phantoms, hallucinations, and like a dream.

— The Eight Similes of Illusion from the Prajna Paramita Sutras- The Buddha

I am a interdisciplinary artist creating luminous contemplative work inspired by the intersection of the spiritual with the natural world. My practice mines the poetic realms of impermanence and interconnection as mirrored by fleeting natural phenomena. Light-centered moments of wonder—sky gradients at dusk, rainbows, radiating sunbeams, rings of auric color, and moonbows—become ethereal symbols of mystical transformation, where boundaries between inner and outer nature dissolve.

In my new multimedia body of work, ReWilding, forest views turn into gradated chromatic skies, trees blend into passing clouds with filtered sunbeams, and mirrored birds reflect the symbolism of inner freedom as they become the sky they fly in. Grey skies flicker with reflective rainbow cloud forms, and teardrops of rain point to inner skies.

I work with light as both metaphor and medium. All of my work is created through extensive layering of transparent, reflective, and luminous materials: mica and iridescent pigments in my paintings and works on paper, mirrors and glass separated by space in my kiln-formed pieces. Hand-painted enamels on glass are fired in the kiln layer after layer, slowly becoming saturated jewel tones that reflect, refract, embody, and transform gradations of light and color. Meditative care, time, and alchemical processes guide the work. Relational perception plays an important role—viewers catch momentary, filtered glimpses of themselves reflected in the work, and each piece shifts with its surrounding environment.

My work invites viewers to pause and experience the subtle interplay between inner reflection and our deeper, often transformative, connection to the expansive beauty of the natural world—beauty held within the profound fragility of impermanence.