Once upon a time this girl was born.
She grew up in Chicago where she learned to dance, act, film, photograph, paint, make dolls, play geetar and sing story songs. In recent years she moved to Indiana and discovered the art of documentation. Now she travels around as a superhero and saves people's lives by documenting them with a series of photographs, drawings, dolls or songs.
She graduated from The American Academy of Art with a Bachelor Degree of Fine Art in Illustration in Dec. of 09.


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Most of her work is character driven.
She creates an environment that reflects the dream of her own imaginary past. She states,

"I try to pull out hidden emotions from the inner part of the childish soul when people look at my work. I love feelings and emotions and watching other people add to this fantastic pot of passion with their reactions.
We're all just fervidly being mixed up and spun around and thrown against odd walls while falling down small holes of confusion. Somehow we raggedly walk out in the end, unaware of what just happened of course, but secretly loving the experience. It doesn't have to make sense, and that's what's so beautiful about art."


Her influences and loves include: God, 44, photos, messed up teeth, music, thrift stores, hockey, clowning, eyes, frogs, oranges, feet, Tim Burton, poetry, tomato juice, humans, pecan pie, rust, Yann Tiersen, family, aliens, creepy twisted characters, shadows, Johnny Depp, toothpaste, hobos tramps and bums, ties, broccoli soup, hair and finger nails, train rides, film, Ramen Noodles, trees, Belle, clowns, Harold and Maude, hippies, paint, light, puppet dolls, sunflowers, Edward Gorey, orange bikes, children (for photos or drawings), socks, Animal Collective, reflections, movies that make you want to hurt yourself after watching them or just go insane, twizzlers and right side of the brain stuff!


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She has many plans for her future, she would like to, and I quote, "Photograph models in ravishing old grotesque locations around the world. Perform as a clown on stage and streets around Europe. Travel across country and collect random goods and hair from stimulating people I meet. If possible, I'll live for a short period of time on a small raft in Niagara Falls.

I want to be in school forever and get degrees in everything I wish I could get a degree in. I'll visit California and play drums on a beach with friends that I don’t have right now. Have a doodle conversation with Tim Burton. I’ll freelance as an Illustrator. I’ll live in my very own apartment and try to survive on ramen noodles, eggs and mushrooms with no money. I’ll live in a cave with my dad and just live. I’ll direct and star in a movie with Johnny Depp and do my own version of Harold and Maude. I’ll also be the world’s most whimsicallly influential art teacher and shop at The Look for outlandish art teacher outfits to impress my little art students.

Eventually I want to live in a tree in New Zealand as a missionary creating art for the nearby village people and show them God's magnificent unconditional love, which is what I’ve been planning to do for about seven years now. Hopefully I'll one day be known as an illustrator and have my children’s books published, or I’ll work for a company that makes me do fun art stuff.

When I'm old I'll be alone in my room surrounded by forty-four cats and forty-four thousand paintings of my forty-four cats. I’ll be naked in a southern house married to a naked southern man with two naked children and die."