Mirror. Vessel. Void.

As an Intuitive Artist, my creative output spans a wide variety of mediums, from painting to sculpture to textiles, assemblage, and beyond. All of my offerings are informed by a life-long sensibility to the numinous. Embracing the contemplative way, I approach each day as a spiritual practice.  Periods of sustained silence and solitude nurture my receptivity to stillness and to the sacred. Through my work, I seek to help nurture presence and deepen divine and interpersonal connection

Lately, I have also been exploring the intersection of gender, spiritual autonomy, and the cultural construction of value. Can contemporary devotion and handcraft be forms of resistance to social and economic structures that extract labor, limit autonomy and inhibit individuals from living in alignment with their true essence and calling?

I am interested in how women throughout history have navigated systems that sought to constrain their freedom of expression. Self-determination and female spiritual authority, outside of sanctioned containment was often treated as problematic. Women who claimed it, were often marginalized, pathologized or worse. Since then, social advancements have seeded some liberty, but even for modern women, self-valuation can still largely be interpreted as transgressive. Openly declaring: My value is intrinsic. I am inherently worthy and whole. I have value irrespective of any affiliation can still feel like an audacious statement. This position of autonomy does not imply a rejection of community. On the contrary, it allows for empowered, healthy interdependence.

Another paradox I encounter in my work is the tension between spiritual surrender and psychological liberation. One turns toward something larger than the self. The other works through inherited conditioning. I have come to see them not as opposites, but as intersecting paths. On the vertical axis: spiritual surrender and devotion. On the horizontal axis: psychological liberation and deconditioning.

My work also reflects on motherhood and explores how creative and devotional practice can serve as a form of self-mothering and care. As a woman who has not birthed children of her own, I experience ‘mother energy’ as a vast energy unbound to gender. I have been mothered not only by my women friends and mentors, but also by the ocean, the sun, the wind, and even by certain encounters with men. And, it is my hope that through my art and other heartfelt acts of grace, that I have been mother to many.

These experiences inform my ongoing inquiry into the relationship between value, production and presence. What emerges when productivity no longer organizes value? The post-fertility womb exists independent of production, occupation, consumption. In a culture organized around extraction. optimization, visibility and self-disclosure, an inactive womb may be inherently subversive. As such the womb evolves from a reproductive symbol to a symbol of sovereignty, and the void itself becomes subject rather than object.

Today, as I enter my Crone years, I see my work as restorative.  It and I, restore a missing image, framing age as culmination rather than decline. In this chapter of life, I remain steadfast in exploring new models for creativity, communion, companionship. And most crucially, in honor of the lineage of women who came before me, I continue to reclaim my agency over inherited restrictions by expanding my capacity to inhabit my full self.

M.U. 2026