"Drop a needle," Euclid suggests, "then wonder as you search for it why you don't see it immediately." As an artist, writer, poet and performer, I'm fascinated with images, with light, with all matters of perception. My earliest influences come directly from my mother who is deaf and has been since birth. She instilled a way of "seeing" that relies heavily on intuition and perception and requires a vigilant registering of the movement, energy and form of my surroundings. I started writing at a relatively young age, primarily as a way of communicating matters of sound without making any direct references to sound. Then later, after living and studying abroad, I became fascinated with the conveyance of words and images while communicating things in a wholly different order — using different formations, constructions and gestures. For me, poetry is a direct extension of all that.
My work has a distinct imagist bent and is influenced by the New York School of Poets, the French Surrealists, the Beats and the various artists who emerged from the West Coast minimalist movement, namely James Turrell. I'm currently working on my second collection of poetry entitled The Line between Lip and Liquid as well as a nonfiction project involving the artist James Turrell and his work on the Roden Crater. I've lived in cities across the U.S. and abroad and hold an eternal soft-spot in my heart for Faverges, a small town in the French Alps. I moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 2003 and currently live in Laurel Canyon.
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