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My ART Is MY Life Story

Meditative truthful lifelong digital art expressing self & earth love.

I am an Oregon artist. I connected with the arts early in life learning dance. As a youth and teenager, I danced, and I immersed myself in movies. I was also captivated by still black and white images. From early childhood I was in love with visual experience, movies, and magazines.

In dance I learned the pleasure of moving through time and space to music. Throughout childhood and as a young adult I learned multiple dance forms and performed. I found it comfortable to use dance and visual images as a language to understand the world.

My first memory of creating with my hands is shaping a soap sculpture in grade school. I recall the feel of the ivory soap as I sculpted the form. I liked the thrill of making something tactual from an everyday household object. In the 70’s …

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Meditative truthful lifelong digital art expressing self & earth love.

My cosmic self-portrait art pulls you into a new universe.

Feel my face change watching "Planetary Sisters" https://youtu.be/zDYL74zkgbE?si=FXKErQALozfCGNBv Planetary Sisters/The Transfiguration : Las Hermanas Since 2016 I have been creating art using my own face which you can see on my website. I was responding to the...

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Spiritually rich, unique, digital, photographic, imagery and stories.