While many of you may know me as a New Yorker, I was only there for a brief time. In fact I was, unabashedly, born in California. I grew up exploring tide pools, racing paper boats in gutters swelling from rain, observing banana slugs, delighting in ripe peaches grown by family friends, and taking lightning drives with my parents.

Eventually we moved to Oregon — a journey that was relatively small but felt like entering a new world. I grew to love the ever-changing weather, commanding storms on the coast with waves that crash to the top of the high cliffs above, rain walks in the Columbia Gorge, and sun-soaked days by the river. For almost 20 years it was my constant.

Throughout my life I have lived in 4 additional states and have visited quite a few more. My partner and I have driven across the country twice, lived in 2 protected landscapes, and see no end to our wandering in sight. Currently we reside in the Marin area, just north of San Francisco.

No matter where I go, I feel my first love of the West with me. It is the lens through which I see the world and the home that calls me. After sorting through endless options, it felt fitting to use a name that encompassed many of the aesthetic and educational experiences that ultimately led to my career in graphic design.