I am a visual artist, educator and Japan specialist. In 2010, I became a certified Embodied Imagination practitioner. As a result of my eclectic, international background, I take a broad approach to imagery in general, and to dreams in particular.
To me, dreams and the creative imagination are real places with their own unique languages, customs and geography. I believe that much of the dream experience can never be fully translated into waking life, but through the arts we can invite the transformative energies of the dream into our waking lives, invigorating our creative process and enriching our sense of wellbeing in the process.
I approach all of my work with dreams through the arts, firmly grounding myself in the work of my hands and the plasticity of the materials. In particular, I enjoy working with watercolor, collage and the book arts because of their transient fluid nature which echoes the elusive movement of dreams. Over the past several years, I have begun to incorporate dance into my daily creative practice as well.
Ever since childhood, I have incubated dreams for insight into my creative process. The resulting dreams have informed, guided and helped choreograph the movement of feeling and imagery into my art.
Through this language of form and feeling, I believe we can re-enter dreams while awake and explore them in a way that is ultimately healing for ourselves, as well as for the images themselves.