My work invites you into a new world. The world of sound and sensing.

This world offers unexpected information, insight, and creativity that is available when you move beyond the rational mind, and listen deeply with every cell in your body. It holds the possibility of experiencing your life in new ways as you listen to yourself, others, and everything around you differently. It offers the full experience of what it means to be, and not to do, try, or think. Everyone is welcome.

I owe where I am today to two things: a desire to create connection at a time in my life when it seemed impossible, and everything that was near and dear to me was at stake, and to being broken, literally, by my emotions.

When I was only 10 years old I discovered that sound gave me a way to communicate with my sister, who at 16, after a long illness, came out of a coma without the ability to form words or speak. Music was always a part of our family (we still love to sing and make music together). So it was natural that I reached for sound-making as a way to speak. I used everything in her hospital room–EKG monitors, bedpans, feeding tubes, etc.– creating rhythms, sequences, sparks of activity. And it worked. In a wordless way. There was somewhere in my sister’s body that she could sense, feel, and receive what my 10-year-old self was trying to say. There was connection. Without mind or rational thought, or you might say beyond mind and rational thought…Not only that, but the hospital room, which I could only associate with illness and death, changed, too, as I composed audio sentences in steady streams and fed them into the space. The atmosphere started to have life to it. What was staid, moved. What was sad, now also had an element of playfulness. It's funny how we know things as kids. It took me years to come back to the belief that healing can be fun.

About a decade or so later, I was working as an artist in New York City. I loved every dusty corner of my studio, in a very noisy corner of midtown. Until the floor literally fell out from under me. I came crashing down through the floor into the studio below me. My back was broken in four places, there was extensive tissue damage, and I was in great pain. My art had always been an exploration into the body and how it works. This inquiry was now turned inwards on myself. Learning to move and be in my body again was a long, winding journey. And it was also intentional. With some room for experimentation.

The big 'aha' came when I realized that it was not about my broken back, or the tissue damage. Or any of that. It was about my emotions. The emotional trauma. Part of me felt deeply unsafe, and this was keeping me broken. Thoughts manifest everywhere in your body, they don't stay in your brain. This is one of the reasons I work with sound and sensing. It is direct, it is primal, it gets us out of our brains and into our bodies and sensing selves. When you create a safe space for moving emotions, for sensing and feeling, it is truly transformative.

I love working with sound and sensing because it is available to all of us. There's not a living thing on this planet – human, plant or animal- that cannot sense sound in some way. My personal story of healing is winding and indirect, but it is also very intentional. I made a very deliberate decision to study with certain people, and I’ve experimented, too, moving through many different healing worlds, many of which I felt I didn't belong. There were so many barriers to entry, whether it be something relatively small – like leggings – or more profound, like “my way is the only way” or “you need me to heal” teachers. What I was looking for, and what I found through my work with sound and sensing, was something to help me be my own advocate for healing, and to have a conversation with my own body, including my emotional body. An advocate for all my bodies, mental, emotional, physical, sensory.