I was born--and trained as--a scientist in the scientific town of Los Alamos, NM, but while the practice of science itself involves creativity, I found myself longing for a more direct mode of creative expression. Because of this, I'm now an artist and writer based in Madison, WI.

My mom directed the Fuller Lodge Art Center in Los Alamos for many years when my brother and I were young, which meant we effectively grew up helping with gallery relocations and show installations, and offering what I'm sure was useful commentary when she brought home slides of work to be juried. She encouraged us to take art classes, for which I'm (now) quite grateful, because it was during those times when, as a child and thus unencumbered by self-doubt, I recognized how profoundly satisfying working with clay is for me.

I grew fascinated, some decades later, with the possibility of using the ceramic sculptures I made later as the basis for bronze castings, but I found the cost and labor associated with lost-wax foundry work prohibitive. Instead, I used scientific principles I'd learned during graduate school to develop a method for "casting" bronzes that involves fusing bronze powder in a process known as sintering. With this more gradual introduction to metal casting, I've been able to produce small bronze sculptures from my home studio; however, the larger and more intricate works I have in progress, works for which my method becomes unwieldy, will be cast at a foundry.

My work has been exhibited several times at the Fuller Lodge Art Center in New Mexico (most recently in the show Fractals, Fission, and Fusion in the summer of 2023) and will be featured in an exhibition at the Overture Performing Arts Center in Madison beginning in December, 2023.