Title: 72, 3″ Squares from the Burren College of Art
Year: 2025
Description: Masonite squares with found objects from the Burren, one-a-day photos and snippets of poetry inspired by David Whyte’s poem, “Stone”. Burren College of Art. County Clare, Ireland, coated with beeswax and tree resin, tied with thread.
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 40″ wide x 50″ high

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Title: Digital Archival Prints
Year: 2023
Description: Digital prints created from a photo microscope and daily explorations and photo captures in the landscape, using typography and focusing on the words, “reparation, repair and renewal” for inspiration.
Medium: Digital Prints
Dimensions: 20″ x 30″

Title: Assemblages
Year: 2022-24
Description: Various found objects, ephemera, memorabilia, wooden construction, beeswax and tree resin.
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 8″ x 12″ x 2″

My process focuses on nostalgia, ancestral roots (being a dual citizen) letting go to chance, and the curiosity to transform something into something else — the journey of an object’s transformation is fascinating to me. I love the structure of geometry and building assemblages, incorporating personal ephemera, and using beeswax and tree resin (encaustics) into the work. The archival nature of encaustics is an important medium which fuses my work together.

Title: Sanctum
Year: 2023-24
Description: This hand built assemblage is dedicated to my father who emigrated to the US in the 50’s.
Medium: Found and collected ephemera, beeswax and resin, custom box.
Dimensions: 8″ x 12″ x 2″

This piece was included in the 28th addition of the publication, Hunger Mountain.

Title: Diorama
Year: 2021
Description: Various found and built objects, memorabilia, wooden construction, beeswax and resin.
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 7″ x 7″ x 7″

Dedicated to Irish Poet, Seamus Heaney, (7″ x 7″ x 7″) diorama 2019. In 2019, during the lockdown of Covid, all personal projects and work got shifted in my life to online and the world felt like it had narrowed into a tiny 7″ x 7″ x 7″ box. A planned trip to Ireland was cancelled during this time. Using Irish poet, Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Postscript” I recreated my studio by building this tiny replica — the one thing that sustained me during this difficult period of isolation and lack of movement. I used this introspective time to cope creatively and “stay light on my feet” with the epic changes to come. Materials: Balsa wood, paint, archival prints, and found objects.

This project was included in the Leap Project.

Title: 28 Days in the Burren
Year: 2017
Description: 28 Days in the Burren, found ephemera, prints and teabags one-a-days coated in beeswax and tree resin.
Medium: teabags, customized wooded boxes, giclee prints, beeswax and resin, found ephemera, latex paint, dowels.
Dimensions: 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Title: Home Again
Year: 2018
Description: An exploration on the concepts of home, fragmentation and duality.
Medium: torn found ephemera, beeswax and tree resin.
Dimensions: 12″ x 16″

Missing Ireland was what inspired me to create this piece and the memory of a friend’s home in Fanore, Ireland. (Repurposed ephemera coated in beeswax and resin).

Title: Bridge Thangka
Year: 2017-18
Description: Favorite Buddhist calendar shredded and reassembled and coated with beeswax and resin.
Medium: Shredded Buddhist calendar, beeswax and tree resin, custom frame.
Dimensions: 12″ x 36″ x 2″

Title: Fluent
Year: 2015-16
Description: torn paper, beeswax and resin in a handmade frame
Medium: torn paper, beeswax and tree resin
Dimensions: 12″ x 36″ x 2″

Inspired by Irish poet John O’Donohue’s poem, Fluent, (13″ x 37″ inches), 2015 repurposed memorabilia and poems.

Title: Leave it Better
Year: 2016
Description: torn paper, junk mail, beeswax and resin composition in a handmade frame
Medium: junk mail, beeswax and tree resin
Dimensions: 5.5′ x 22″ x 1″

Included in the Taos’ Millicent Rogers Museum’s Annual Locals Show.

Title: 365 Cups of Tea
Year: 2010 – 2014
Description: Illustrated teabags as daily practice, with watercolour pencils. This was a collaborative project with a few cohorts.
Medium: used teabags, Derwent watercolour pencils
Dimensions: 2″ x 2″ each

Note: This project translated into various formats; cards, calendar, canvas prints, and selected for the “Taos is Art” Banner Competition 2020 & 2021.

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Title: Fly Away Home
Year: 2015
Medium: torn paper, paint, beeswax and resin
Dimensions: 12″ x 18″ x 3″
Description: torn paper, beeswax and resin composition and explorations with mixed media and collage.

Title: Ice Skating Chronicles
Year: 2014-15
Medium: shredded paper and personal ephemera, beeswax and tree resin, constructed art boxes.
Dimensions: 12″ x 12″x 2″
Description: Art boxes with shredded paper, paint and text on clear acrylic. The idea surfaced when I was recollecting memories, stories and images of kneeling on a frozen pond as a child and studying the objects trapped beneath the ice.

Part of a exhibiton TADA Show 2014 in New Hampshire, Connecticut.

Title: 132 Hexagons
Year: 2012
Medium: handcut masonite 6″x 6″ hexagons, each contained shredded and rearranged with one-a-day archival photographs.
Dimensions: Final work is 6′ high x 4′ wide with 132 hexagons tied together with hemp twine.
Description: Shredded prints were glued to masonite hexagons, tied together with hemp twine, covered with beeswax and tree resin for preservation. One line of Yeats poetry was addded to each hexagon.

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Title: Slide Puzzle Box (Final Thesis project)
Year: 2013
Medium: moveable acrylic pieces, wooden box, giclee prints, beeswax and resin.
Dimensions: 24″ x 24″ x 3″
Description: The Slide Puzzle Box was part of my last project created during my thesis. It represented lessons learned during my MFA journey of chance, change and personal challenges.

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Title: 6 Foot Hexagon
Year: 2012
Medium: masonite, shredded memorabilia and favorite books.
Dimensions: 6′ x 6′ hexagon shape, made of 12″ x 12″ squares and pieces cut to fit.
Description: Shredded personal books glued to masonite, arranged in a hexagonal shape, archived with beeswax and resin for preservation. Dedicated to my mother.

Agnes Martin, Abstract Expressionist (1912 – 2004)

During graduate school I voluntered at the Harwood Museum of Art’s exhibiton, “Agnes Martin before the Grid” in 2012. I was interested in Martin’s grids and lines and her concepts of lines being calming caught my attention.  I also interviewed filmmaker, Mary Lance who produced the Agnes Martin interview, “With my back to the world.” And I spent time at the MoMa researching Martin’s work and in lower Manhattan where her waterfront studio was located in Coenties Slip.

Title: Agnes Martin Print Studies (2011)
Year: 2012
Medium: mixed media, thick cardstock, prints, beeswax and tree resin.
Dimensions: 6″ x 6″ composites studies

Title: Beeswax and Tree Resin Studies (2010)
Year: 2011-12
Medium: Digital collages with beeswax and tree resin
Dimensions: 5″ x 8″
Description: shredded prints and found paper, collage composition in beeswax and resin.

Title: Digital Collages
Year: 2008-2010
Medium: Digital Collages
Dimensions: Various Sizes
Description: Digital layouts for cards and posters.

Title: Home Collage
Year: 2009
Medium: Digital Collage
Dimensions: 12″ x 18″
Description: Digital Collage Composition

This image won an ‘honorable mention’ for an Alumni exhibition in the UNM John Sommers Gallery.