Check out my design studio work by click on the Studio link. My REsearch page is a space for me to ideas out there and experiement. No client. I also collarorate with artists, designers, and friends on projects. I find collaborative work to be inspiring, fun and to be a mode of working that is creatively sustainable. Check out my collaborations link. I do all this and teach full-time at Portland State University in the graphic design department. Check out PSU graphic design department blog called CommandSave.

NEW Developments
I am interested in exploring interactivity for time based video media controlled with electronic devices and tools. With electronics tools, I can create interactive art exhibits that interact with the physical world and allow users to controll how they see work. Much of my inpiration came from the people at Making Things in the Bay Area. Check out their website to look at current projects. They sell these cool Make Controller kits that allow electronic devises to talk to computers, control motors (stepper, servo, and DC), switch lights, measure temperature, distance and other values, detect people/movement, control things from your desktop or laptop,and more. Really cool. When I was teaching at Maine College of Art, I invited Making Things to come do a workshop with my new media majors. This was my first look at the Make Controller and the electronic devices that are availble to connest to the controller.

Another studio to look at whose work often intergrates interactivity is Futurefarmers. Futurefarmers are a multidisciplinary studio whose practice and collorations are also a inspiration for projects that react to the environment, time, and space. Check out their projects.


Ongoing Development
As an artist and feminist, I am compelled to question and critique socially prescribed gender roles. By re-contextualizing with digital video, I deconstruct social norms and reconstruct them in a performative experimental narrative, which is playful and humorous, demonstrates their absurdity, while quietly pinching back culture.

My digital vidoes stem from autobiographical narratives however, many of us share simular narratives. It is the intersection of private and public that narratives become shared and connect us through a culture, community, socially and even on a very human level of emotions. As an artist I rely on these shared connections to communicate a narrative.

My projects explore the use of narrative storytelling through both image making and spoken words. I fragment the narratives in a non-linear method, often utilizing repetition, which then asks viewers to construct and reconstruct a narrative over time. I rely on public and cultural narratives to emerge from the images. I also am investigating postures and performances of gender to tell a story about an identity, community and culture.