Having lived an eclectic life, spanning across seven countries, leading me to study sculpture at the National Art School in Sydney, Australia, coming home was not where I saw my future. After having to return to San Antonio from an artist residency in Vallauris, France March 2020, I needed to find a slower pace and guide the direction of my practice. Like so many of us left in confusion and upheaval over the pandemic years it has been a journey filled with incredible change. I began 2020 weakened from a life saving emergency bowel resection. Then traveled to Europe with bronchitis from the Australian fires.  Unsurprisingly, a recent chrischendo of health issues and hospital stay led to my diagnosis with the connective tissue disease, Lupus. Since my 2019 surgery my intuitive response is always to create. Even if I am physically working through pain there is a need to release through abstracted forms with intended beauty.