A new year! A new weekly zine! My last rotation around the sun was deeply informed by my weekly vigil with a different bird messenger in 52 Feathers. Each week I would discover the mythic medicine of various birds and it always blew me away how synchronous each invocation was to the present moment in my life. Birds are aligned with the East and the East is symbolic of Air and Beginnings. When I chose to write about the birds I hadn’t made this connection, but as 2020 began to

Last May I participated in a Ritual Theatre Workshop hosted by the Shamanic Dolls called Pattern Disruption. The premise for the workshop was to create a character to disrupt some pattern in your life. I met Melinda, one of the two facilitators, at a Denver Immersive Theatre gathering earlier in the year and as soon as she told me about the Shamanic Dolls I was itching to get involved with their magical work. Shamanic Dolls is an interactive theater company devoted to the exp

Before reading this blog post on my new series of paintings take some time to go listen to The Feather Heist on This American Life. I recently listened to this podcast on a road trip to California, and it solidified my desire to create a series of paintings focused on the magic of the Birds of Paradise, the bird, not the flower. Birds of Paradise are a group of 39 birds found primarily in New Guinea and Australia. They have been shrouded in mysticism and adoration by people f

Wishes! Wishes! and More Wishes! Being a part of Turning the Wheel Missoula’s Enchanted Forest was a Full Body YES! and then the cherry on top was the event going smooth as butter. Thank you to everyone who came out to see the magic at the Enchanted Forest and participate in the wonder of my Wishing Well Cavern Installation. The actual installation looked even better than I imagined in my head. I projected images of water I had collected from all over the world, and it comple

Tickets are now available for Red Shoes! Head on over to the Fringe Website to secure your seat at my show. Adult $15 | Student and Seniors $13 BOGO Tickets for Opening Night! Red Shoes A one woman spectacle that cobbles together the dramas of losing your shoes, looking in all the wrong places, weathering the storm, and finding your wings instead. Ticket On Sale Now Friday AUG 17, 8:45 PM (BOGO Tickets for Opening Night!) Saturday AUG 18, 5:45 PM Thursday AUG 23, 6:45 PM Satu

A long time ago I found an image in National Geographic of a man holding an elk on his back. The image felt ancient and haunted to me, even though the article was about Canadian hunters and the lives they lived. I searched through magazine until I found other images of deer/human crosses and planned on creating a horned god triptych. I knew I wanted the colors of the final paintings to compliment the wall colors of my home (which are currently lime green, purple, and teal) an

Statement I wanted to make a collage of sounds for this project. Most of my art is multimedia and I didn’t want to stray away from that theme for this project. I collected a lot of sounds, some found, some created to blend together and create the ambient soundscape I am presenting. I recorded words from my poetry, lines from Genesis in the Bible, and blended that with found recordings from nature. I was interested in constructing somewhat of a narrative with the aural collage

Need Starting today  I want to upload one image of my art and talk about it, as a reflection for myself. I created this collage at my parents house while in my freshman year of college. It was one of those works that comes together seemelessly. All the pictures, colors and texts came together with ease and speed. The work corresponds to a conversation I had with a friend about who our Gods are in the modern day. They had read a book on “Modern Magic” and it discussed Gods suc