Over the last 6 years I have been in school learning to be a theatrical designer and craftsperson, As I went though the design program I realized the narrative stories of the theatre were what powerfully connected me and my work so completely to oral traditions of other times. As my skills have expanded I have also realized that I am no longer a designer alone. The more I discovered about different mediums the last couple years the more truthfully that I have come to understand and describe my own personal narratives.

I want to tell stories with the ephemera that I create by giving them a history that it did not have before. By conceptualizing and designing entire worlds there is so much opportunity for incorporating all of the aspects of my own interests from book arts to science and from history to myth. I feel that this need to create myth lead me to creating puppets and stop-motion design. I have always felt that there is more to the world than what we collectively acknowledge and for me the stories about spaces others than the ones we normally allow ourselves to inhabit, are the richest and most stimulating landscape for our lives. There is something ethereal and otherworldly about the animation of stop-action motion and for me it makes it all really come alive. For thousands of years puppets have been used in cultures all over the world to represent us, and our humanity. Although not human, puppets provide a more profound understanding and connection to our own humanity.

Over the past few years I have been able to work from both technical skills and analytical perspective of my theatre background as well as working from the essential inspiration that art gives to me. In the end, I have found that my own voice is the most potent in this space between the world of art and the world theatre.