From a young age, I was drawn to world religions, which sparked a fascination with archetypes. In my twenties, I delved into archetypal psychology and mythology, exploring how psychological patterns shape our inner and outer lives.
In my thirties, I encountered Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, a model that works with subpersonalities to promote healing. Experiencing its power firsthand led me to train as an IFS trauma therapist. My creative work, whether as a director, performer, or visual artist, naturally weaves together these threads, often centering on the divine feminine and rooted in a deeply personal narrative.
I've always exploring similar themes, but over the past eight years, my visual practice has been shaped by the progression of a tremor in my dominant hand due to Parkinson’s. As the condition has advanced, my work has evolved from figurative to more abstract and giving me more freedom to allow this loss of control into the work.
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Since the mid-1990s, my work has explored goddess energy as embodied in both the divine feminine and in earthly women, drawing on archetypal psychology and myth. Early projects included alternative-process analog photography, interdisciplinary performance, and mixed-media drawings and paintings. These works often incorporated women woven with maps, celestial symbols, and text from quantum theory papers, as I recorded my attempts to connect with their presences across time and space.
Over time, my practice narrowed to visual art. In 2010, I created an extensive personal archetypal card deck to reflect concepts like Compassion, Fierceness, and Vulnerability. These cards became a catalog, a guidebook, and a well I return to when beginning a new piece.
Each painting begins with a whisper—the essence or feeling of a goddess I sense emerging. I conjure her presence using colors that evoke natural elements, laying down the terrain of the background in acrylic. I build up layers with ink, water, and more acrylic to create fluid pathways shaped by gravity and chance.
Next, I turn to patterned paper. I cut, tear, fold, twist, or lay it flat, shaping its movement into form. I have a conversation with the paper—sometimes guiding it, sometimes following where it leads. It’s a playful discovery of who had the better idea: the paper or me. Finally, I return to color, integrating the composition with ink, oil pastel, or spray paint.
In recent years, a progressive tremor has changed how I work, inviting deeper collaboration with accident, imperfection, and surrender. My Modern Goddess series reflects this dance between control and release—archetypes alive in modern women: fierce, powerful, vulnerable, and whole.