Statement
I was born between worlds. My father carried the stories of the Bitterroot Salish and Q’lispe peoples, while my mother’s family arrived as settlers on that same land generations ago. Their histories met in me, and I have lived my life in the space where cultures touch, overlap, and sometimes collide. My art grows from that threshold—from the place where two inheritances meet.
I move through both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of making, guided by the materials that have shaped my memories and feel good in my hands. Paint, beads, bone, paper, hair, wood, and textiles become companions in this exploration—some Indigenous, some not, all carrying their own weight of history. In working with them, I ask what they mean to me, what they mean to those who see my work, and how their stories echo across time.
My practice seeks the in-between places: the shared spaces, the contested spaces, the quiet bridges between cultures. I search for points of common understanding—those small openings where viewers from different backgrounds can enter the work and find something that speaks to them. The two ways of seeing that shaped my life are woven together in every piece I create.
My themes rise from lived experience: the sacred and the hidden; the seen and the unseen; the recognizable and the unfamiliar. I reflect on assimilationist systems, on resistance, on the ache of removal, on the power of community, and on the landscapes that hold all these stories.
My art is an offering from the threshold—a reflection of a life lived between, and a testament to the beauty and complexity that can grow there.