About

Fine Artist & Counselor-in-Training

As both an artist and a graduate student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, my work lives at the intersection of creative repair and psychological resilience. I collect broken, discarded, or forgotten objects and reconstruct them using a process inspired by kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending with gold. However, rather than seeking to restore these items to a prior ideal, I invite surreal, dreamlike elements into the repairs, such as growths, distortions, and even contradictions, symbolizing the nonlinear and often unexpected nature of healing.

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My repairs are intentionally imperfect, irreverent, and often a bit absurd because that's how healing can feel. I'm drawn to the way our core beliefs, that start forming in childhood, quietly steer our lives: shaping how we interpret events, relationships, and our worth (Fenn, 2013). The process is deliberately ad hoc, with glue that drips, seams that don't line up, and additions that make no logical sense; it mirrors healing with the resources available. These choices are not mistakes; they are honest. They reflect how belief systems are formed and reformed through lived experience, not precision. It is a playful, messy homage to the ways we integrate adverse events and keep going.

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References: 

Fenn, K., & Byrne, M. (2013). The key principles of cognitive behavioural therapy. InnovAiT, 6(9), 579–585. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755738012471029