Old World, New West

I’m a transplanted desert dweller. My family is from the Boston area, where I also went to University (Tufts 89) and art school (SMFA “the Museum school” 89). Shortly after graduating, I took a wild leap with a friend and drove west, in search of the sun and a more liberating lifestyle.

After a few years in Arizona, I began planning my return east: bought my ticket, started packing. I was halfway out the door when by chance I met my match; my Florentine astrophysicist husband, who was in town working on one of the newest high tech telescopes being built in southern Arizona.

Since that fateful day, I’ve been Painting and Metalsmithing in the heat of Tucson Arizona since 1993, with a 3 year interlude in Florence Italy 1997-2000

After surviving a ruptured appendix in 1998, I live with the echoes of trauma through persistant chronic pain. My movement through the world is often leashed by the painful struggle of my body limitations. My artistic practice helps me put order into my world, a way to find productive focus.

Due to my health issues, I stay close to home, close to a place of rest. Travel is exciting but exhausting, therefore I primarily work from photos I’ve shot over the years in Tucson and my many trips to my husband’s home in Italy.

My work focuses on local inspirations, memories, commemoration and finding beauty in everyday life. Subjects range from iconic objects, natural forms and landscapes, and local architecture. I respond to the world by bringing attention to the here and now with images that I create from my personal experience.

I love the open puzzles of creativity, with a blank page being the launch and the process an unlimited ride, travelling the world within my creative process. I find meaning and focus in the world through the process of creating; When I am lost in my work I know I’m on the right path.

May the flux be with you be with you