artist, designer, educator

Roots
Raised in a family of artists and artisans, I’ve spent my life making and creating as a way to move with—and make sense of—the world. I’ve always loved pattern: in textiles and design, nature, natural fibers, and the interwoven stories of humans in relationship with land and life. Designing costumes and scenery for theater became a natural home for these passions—a form of visual storytelling that brought everything I loved into a collaborative practice, working with pattern, form, and materials to create meaning with others.

Folding Circles – Integration

My interest in my father’s work with the circle deepened during my theater design training, when I began exploring how the circle folding framework could be applied to solving design problems. It revealed elegant, integrated solutions—visually, structurally, and conceptually. I continue to work this way: not through formulas or imposed structures, but a responsive, relational process, where form, movement, and space are deeply interconnected.

Material Practice
I fold circles as a way to explore the beauty and complexity of pattern as it appears in the geometrical and structural systems of biological life forms, natural ecosystems, and cultural expressions. Working with paper, natural fibers, and repurposed materials, I incorporate traditional textile techniques—felting, dyeing, painting, and stitching—to illuminate the relationships between pattern, form, and space, made tangible through folding.

Teaching and Facilitating
With over 20 years of experience working with people of all ages, abilities, and lived experiences, I facilitate creative processes that invite insight, connection, and reflection. The tactile, transformational act of folding the circle offers a shift in perception—an embodied experience of geometry, belonging, and discovery. For some, it reveals mathematical or musical structures; for others, emotional insight or ecological resonance. Each fold becomes a moment of presence. The circle meets each person where they are—and invites them to remember wholeness.

Through Wholemovement™ and Radical Circle Arts, I continue to develop workshops, school residencies, and community art experiences that honor nature, creativity, and our shared humanity.