I’m a Pheonix based Wisconsin native working in medium format film with a Rollieflex, cyanotypes, quilting, and creative writing. My artistic practice is focused on grief studies, education, and process. I use my personal experiences in grief, loss, and the inability to grieve to create new and complex ways of being able to work through and process the losses we face. Working with different areas of grief such as disenfranchised grief, social stigma, and concepts of motherhood.

Grief is complex and in expressing that complexity I blend several different elements together showing how we can grieve in ways that won’t corrupted the soul but allow it to flourish. My studies focus on the areas of grief, religion, metaphysics, grief counseling, genealogy, cremation, culture, and identity.

My creative writing process is expressed using memoir and detailed events from my life. I’ve used my personal life, genealogy studies on my paternal side, grief studies, artistic influences, and death education to create my first book Devoted to the Aftermath. In this book I discuss my personal losses, use old journal entries from times when the emotions were fresh in my mind, use new entries and reflections and creative writing. I discuss the religion of my ancestor and my current family as well as address my own beliefs. I’ve included genealogy research, letters from historians, the six stages of grief, meaning making, narrative reconstruction, unanswerable questions. thoughts and personal letters to lost loved ones. I write about the two pioneers in near death studies Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Dr. David Kessler and their experiences in working with the dying and children trying to understand death from their position.