Homing
Home. The foundational aspects of home include a sense of connectedness, belonging, safety, and mutual care. Having served folks without a home in a clinic and jail setting for eight years, you could say I have cared about home and health for some time.
To carry a sense of home is to have a connection to place and your community members--and to celebrate the shared connection to place and each other. To celebrate our differences and what we uniquely offer.
That we each have a story, and those stories are part of a greater connected whole of vibrant life.
The word ecology comes from the Greek word oikos, meaning house. The work before us is to tend to our inner and outer houses and landscapes. I believe our outer landscapes are like a mirror of our inner landscapes. When we remember how to offer presence and attention to our greater community of beings, more-than-human kind, we remember how to relate to each other in reciprocity.
We are home for each other.
Explore the Original Work in Series
Seize the Day
Summer 2025--New!
Into the Night
Winter/Spring 2025
Shorebirds & Waterfowl of the Prairie
Summer 2024
Songbirds of the Prairie
Winter/Spring 2024
Summer on the Prairie
Summer 2023
Spring on the Prairie
Winter/Spring 2023
Statement
A single focus guides my multidisciplinary and evolving work: reconnecting with the earth as alive, sentient, and filled with systems and beings to which we're connected. We are part of ‘nature,’ not separate, and our health is tied to the health of our environment and living systems. We evolved out there.
Each series is a journey filled with storytelling, myth, folklore, natural history, and science--my way of reconnecting with our leafy, feathered, furry, and scaled friends. I read books, articles, field guides, and more to inform each series. Such a scholastic and exploratory approach is my modus operandi.
Art has always been a vehicle for communicating in ways that words cannot. With organic shapes, grounded color palettes, use of earth pigments (some handmade with plants), and an airy feel, I hope folks feel calm and uplifted--a visual breath of fresh air from the outdoors that call us.
