Artist Statement

I am a bookbinder, typewriter poet, and interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on craft, material presence, and the quiet decisions that shape meaning. My work unfolds where text and object meet — in artist books, handmade paper, journals, and other tactile forms — and is rooted in the rhythms of touch, type, and careful looking.

I approach writing and making as parallel acts of attention. Whether I am forming paper by hand, setting type on a vintage machine, or composing a sequence of marks on a page, my process is shaped by limits — line, surface, restraint — and by a commitment to slow, considered making. I am drawn to simple, tactile forms that foreground materiality and invite intimate engagement rather than declaration.

In every piece, I explore the subtle interplay of light, form, surface, and text, inviting the viewer or reader into a moment of pause: to feel the grain of the paper, to hear the cadence of language, to encounter image and word as equally physical presences. The work is made by hand and meant to be encountered slowly, as an invitation to inhabit the space between seeing and reading, thinking and feeling.

My practice is an ongoing inquiry into how attention deepens experience, and how restrained, deliberate form can open room for the unexpected, the ineffable, and the quiet threshold where meaning gathers.