I am a thing-maker. I love to make things, think about things, share things, and more or less try to fit little snippets of this wondrous, baffling existence between my cupped hands. I seek to then open my hands for people and reveal possibility and the rich complexity of being here – being human.

Some things I’ve cobbled together: hand-made shoes, a flour mill rigged up to an old Schwinn exercise bicycle, hand-woven gigantic reproductions of clothes tags (part of an art project about the politics and ecology of clothes - see picture), teacups, poems about teacups, carrot ginger soup, teeny tiny letters sealed with wax, dice with drawings of vegetables on the faces. I like to make things that attempt to reveal the marvelous extraordinariness of the everyday.

I dig reading, writing poetry, cooking, eating chocolate (mostly only if it’s fair trade and organic and so I believe in it’s story), farmer’s markets, my bicycle, the milk crate on the back of my bicycle, funny things small children say, oolong tea, finding odd little artifacts on eBay and in junk shops, sewing, garlic, hiking in the hills, running, kale, intimate philosophical (yet grounded) discussion, non-violent communication, eco-living and green design… I studied politics, philosophy, art, and environmental studies in college and have been doing related work for the last 5 years. I'm currently running my own little cottage industry and creating art projects to create a more playful and conscious world.

coming up with wacky ideas that dance at the edge of the possible

my friendliness
that I wear paperclips for earrings

BOOKS:
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
• Walden - Thoreau
• The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram
• Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (about the Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA)
• Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
• We've had 100 years of psychotherapy and the world's getting worse - James Hillman & Michael Ventura
• Conversations Before the End of Time - Suzi Gablik
• children's picture books - especially Peter Sis

MUSIC:
old-timey
klezmer
hip-hop
folk
BANDS:
Hem
Blackalicious
Crooked Still
Sean Hayes
The Devil Makes Three
The Clash
Dolly Parton
Gogol Bordello

TV: don't have one, but I loved Star Trek the Next Generation when I was in middle school.

MOVIES:
Everything is Illuminated
Amélie
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Science of Sleep
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the old one)
Spirited Away, etc.
The Back to the Future series

a pencil
a sense of poetry
books
hearty conversation
the material world
compassion

how change happens
what is possible
where things come from
how to make this or that
if time is linear or not
which thing is most important
how art and politics interact
where questions come from
how ideas pop into our heads
process
how the human heart opens

making things at home or having tea with a friend

you think we might connect in a creative way - even just as friends. You don't need to be just like me - just be passionate about life.