My current collection consists of painting in oils, acrylic and watercolor. The paintings explore my inner world as I explore the world and respond to what I see and learn. I have been to over thirty countries as a solo traveler and I look for the unexpected side of life behind what the tourism council wants you to see and experience. I like learning about the everyday life of people. I want to learn what they cook at home, how they manage work and family and what are the women in their neighborhood worried about.

Some of the abstract paintings also include poems that I have written to further convey my relationship with the work by sharing what I was experiencing while I was painting.

My artist residency at the Deering Estate in Miami allowed me the opportunity to think about how I would create art if I lived hundreds of years ago. I thought about the plants and what pigments they would make. I began exploring printing directly from plant leaves as well as making dyes from leaves, flowers and seeds. Because I started sewing at the age of nine where I made and designed most of my clothes, I made scarves, pillowcases, kimonos, and bags.

My travels are what have inspired my current collection of abstract paintings. The knowledge and life experience's I have gained by visiting over twenty countries in the past six years transcend words and appear in a language through my paintings. As I travel, a small part of me blooms with a deeper, richer understanding of who I am and my place in the world. I return renewed each time. Every adventure explores something unexpected, furthering my compassion for people, nature, and cultures.

With this body of papier mache sculptures I explore my relationship with food and ways to grow food in urban areas. The brown grocery bag paper represents the way most people get their food. The everyday objects reflect how growing food could be everywhere and not just in a far away land where our relationship is so distant that our children don’t know how it is grown. As I researched food forests, I wanted to use my sculptures to bring awareness to the possibilities of growing food in urban areas and building more food forests in our communities.

Each handmade vessel is made of porcelain thrown on a potter's wheel and then carved with native flowering plants of south Florida. In this collection of porcelain handmade dinnerware and teapots, the gaze is distressed representing the fragility of native plants and how sensitive the Biscayne Bay in Miami is. So many properties plant trees, bushes and flowers that are not native and because of this fertilizer has to be used in order for the plants grow. The excess fertilizer is then washed away and deposit toxic chemical into our bay.

Pieces from this collection were exhibited in Shanghai and Beijing, China. When I started this collection, it was common for people not to upcycle. The art became a vehicle to talk about upcycling which lead to many speaking opportunities to talk about how happily we bring our bags to the grocery store thinking this alone will help the enironment, and yet fill it full of plastic food containers. This is why all of the pieces are made from food containers woven together to tell a story.

In 2020, the world around me suddenly became very quiet. COVID-19 had forced many businesses to close, and as I walked through my neighborhood, I saw rows of empty storefronts and dark windows. I began to wonder how I could transform some of that emptiness into something that might bring people a little curiosity, color, and connection while they were out walking.

That question became the beginning of this project.

I learned about The Villagers, an organization committed to preserving the history and character of the community by raising awareness and funds for historic preservation. Their mission immediately resonated with me, and I began creating a series of mini sculpture window boxes inspired by historic preservation and the stories behind the places The Villagers worked to protect.

I wanted the artwork to be more than something simply beautiful to look at. Each box included a QR code that invited people to pause, scan, and discover more about the preservation projects supported by The Villagers. In a time when so much had become disconnected, I liked the idea that a simple walk past a storefront could lead someone into a story about their own community.

The window boxes were first exhibited in a downtown shopping district, filling an otherwise empty storefront with color and creativity during a difficult and uncertain time. When the exhibition ended, the collection found a new home at the Merrick House, where it became part of a permanent display.

I also designed notebooks featuring the artwork, extending the project beyond the storefront and giving people another way to take a piece of the experience with them.