Born in Flagstaff, AZ, I have made my way to Portland,OR via Hilo, Hawaii - Olympia, WA - San Francisco, CA - Cambridge & Salem, MA.  I've taken a long, meandering, intensively curious and skill-focused path, staying in school in one form or another for most of my life.  I've always loved learning and working with my hands, exploring materials and machinery and solving puzzles and problems.  I've been drawn to disciplines which require a lot of patience and the ability to see the outcome in my mind's eye, such as:

working in reverse on etching plates, in negative in photo processes, writing from right to left in Japanese, glazing pottery and waiting for the heat to transform it, shooting animation until enough individual images have accumulated to create the illusion of motion, working on another surface and not seeing the result until ink is applied and a print is pulled.

 

I am drawn to stop-motion animation's crafting of intricate, pleasing worlds and objects.  I love the care and attention to detail; the joy of every scrap of material being specifically created to populate a world. 

I revel in process and in adding my voice to the larger chorus to create something greater than our individual selves; the magic of a bunch of creative, process-oriented people making a breathtaking cumulative piece of art.  

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I am also the weirdo who likes to spend my day doing things like:

looking backwards at film through a loupe, weeding vinyl, color-correcting and nudging video segments to precise timing, finding that perfect center on a wooden tool with a belt sander, lining up stock and arranging displays of plants perfectly, figuring out how to build a homemade light-box, puzzling out a way to use machines to do jobs no one thought to make a machine for, and catching the raking light on a 3D print to process it perfectly. 

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I find great satisfaction in exploring the boundaries of process, thinking outside the usual to find what's possible. I am here to create beautiful things that bring joy and deep feeling to the world.  

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