Metamorphydra Art

I am an emerging artist, lifelong poet, and transplant to the Yakima Valley since 2011. Raised by a creek in the rolling hills of northern Delaware, I’m also a stan for our deep interconnectedness with the natural world and the sacredness of our psychological wounds.

My work explores the complicated relationship between our shadows and our hope and is influenced by my experience of childhood emotional abuse and neglect; my experience as a mother; my participation and apprenticeship in community grief ritual and matriarchal, earth-based spirituality; and my deep love of beauty.

In my first exhibit, “Grief and Other Gifts” - opening at Yakima Healing Arts on March 27th - my work weaves together affirmations, limiting beliefs, color, ink, nature imagery, abstract forms, neurographic lines, and runny paint cascading down the paper like teardrops. Each piece is created through a process of transformation – some more intellectual and some more expressive – that ultimately aims to find hope and resolve within the tumult and heartbreak of these unprecedented times.

Metamorphydra is a nod both to the transformative nature of my art practice (metamorphosis) as well as the tendency of my creativity to take on many (sometimes dangerous) forms like the mythical Hydra monster over the course of my life. If one head was cut off, it would morph into three more. My early years taught me that to be an artist full-heartedly was to risk abandonment. As a result, I’ve worn many creative hats over my life - poet, recipe developer, science communicator, artist, and mother - and it is only recently that I’ve begun to take that natural abundance seriously and heal these childhood wounds around these gifts.

My hope is that this work connects with you, that it inspires you to connect to the unique gifts that your soul wants to express, and that it connects you and me!

I’m open to commissions and custom artworks - please reach out to collaborate!