Yes, you read that right. I have synesthesia, which means music shows up as colors and shapes in my brain. It's like having a built-in light show that nobody else can see. Pretty cool party trick, but also super helpful for making art! I like to explore the connections between sensory experiences, emotions, memory, and the natural world.
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I make mixed media art in Seattle that's all about connecting dots between our messy inner worlds and the even messier outer one. I use my synesthesia as a compass to translate sensory experiences, emotions, and memories into visual expressions.
My layered pieces blend watercolor, acrylic, and thoughtfully chosen found materials into works that reveal unexpected connections. Each artwork naturally emerges as I respond to the materials, memories, and moment at hand. I really enjoy this intuitive approach, not knowing what will happen next! You will also see my (sometimes dark) sense of humor in my work.
I'm basically just documenting life's strange little phenomena: the way a particular album feels, a childhood memory revisited through adult eyes, or how seasonal changes impact emotions.
Art exists to make us feel, to provoke, challenge, celebrate, comfort, and truth-tell.
It's all about catching those fleeting things before they disappear, and celebrating the beauty of impermanence. In my work, I always want to invite you to reflect on your own ways of experiencing the world, and the layered, beautiful messiness of human experience.
My art is way cooler in person. Promise. Plus, I might have cookies at my next show. No guarantees, but the possibility exists. In the meantime...
check out the goodsMy mixed-media works explore the intersections between sensory perception, memory, and lived experience. As an artist with synesthesia, I experience music and memory as vivid visual phenomena, which fundamentally shapes my creative process. Each piece begins as a response to a song, a moment, or a memory, developing through unfolding layers of watercolor, acrylic, and repurposed materials. I am particularly drawn to the dialogue between intentionality and chance. By incorporating found and recycled materials, I allow each element to bring its own history into conversation with the work.
My technique is grounded in both formal training and authentic lived experience – from the DIY aesthetic of punk rock culture to years of working intimately with natural cycles as a flower farmer and florist. This unique background informs my understanding of color theory, composition, and the delicate balance between intention and organic development. My process is deliberately unplanned, embracing the tension between control and surrender. Each piece is created through a methodical process of layering and material exploration. This approach creates space for unexpected connections and happy accidents that often prove more compelling than what may have been intended at the outset.
The resulting works serve as visual chronicles of sensory experience – a song's color palette, the texture of a memory, the rhythm of natural phenomena. I invite viewers to explore their own connections between sight, sound, memory, and emotion. My work suggests that these connections, though deeply personal, point to universal aspects of human perception and experience.