Growing up in a time before modern day distractions, I was left to my imagination for entertainment. I was lucky enough to have spent my early childhood in Tunisia, Portugal, and Brazil. I spent my youth barefoot exploring the streets, beaches, hills, and farmland. I spoke to animals, invented, and played in the garden. I let my imagination take hold, and so began a love affair with nature and her creative influence.
Fast forward. I am now an Asheville NC via Oakland CA based artist and mother who expresses herself through many mediums. I create sculptures and build stories within them. I create highly emotional work that people can relate or escape into. I make touchable dreams.
In 2014, while cutting a kiwi fruit, I raised a slice to the light and a vision was born; “Fruit Glass Windows”. Through trial and error I have created a process that has enabled me to bring natures intricate beauty into an allegory of my mind's eye. I am intrigued and somewhat obsessed with all the nuances of nature. The details that many people pass over, I look deeper into. The tangle of roots, the veins in a pepper, the cellular pattern in a tomato, overlapping shadows, or the intricate lines of a fingerprint. It is a meditation. I am in awe by nature’s simple and complex beauty all around us.
Thank you for checking out my work and I hope it touched you in some way.
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell" -Antonin Artaud