About

Purple Tsunami (aka Wave Study at High Tide) 

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Brief Statement

I fell into art by way of eastern religions (a lifetime ago), and the latter quickly found its way into my artwork/processes and never left. There is essentially no separation between my life/myself and my prints, which I think of as visual poems or spiritual landscape photographs. Further, photography is my first love/primary medium but it's not the only medium I work in.

My art as healing methods stem from my rather Taoist approaches to making expressive artwork; I will provide students with instruction, demos, and choices of ways they can address art as healing, via their preferred mediums; once they find a process they connect with and get the basics down, I will guide them towards using their materials in different ways that will not only help them heal but will also result in strong and beautiful artwork.

Healing Beauty - a new series of art/wellness classes

My Healing Beauty classes primarily combine analog photographic instruction (various processes) with different aspects of wellness/art as healing. However, the first class of the series was designed for both photographic artists and enthusaists, as well as for those who work in other mediums.

• This class began as a photographic/art as healing course, designed specifically for those grieving in some capacity. However, while watching in horror as both friends and strangers in Minneapolis, Kansas, and elsewhere, were being marginalized, traumautized, and losing what should be basic rights (as well as the lives of their loved ones in some cases), I realized that an emergency art as healing course that wasn't limited to photography would help a lot more folks...

Breaking All of the Rules (aka Finding the Cracks Where the Light Gets In)

 This Zoom class is essentially an intro to art as healing class, designed specifically to help those who are traumatized by what is and has been happening in this country (and elsewhere) and struggling to find reasons to be joyful. My classes are always safe spaces and will provide beauty and light, as well as a way to begin to heal (participants are welcome to make as many Fuck Ice prints/paintings/poems/drawings as they wish. In fact, I'll even make some along with you).

• I'm offering two versions of the first class, as well as an additional class, combining images & words, in order to avoid excluding anyone who might benefit from learning to release their pain, by putting it into beautiful healing artwork (and/or words). And since these times call for art as healing right now, as opposed to in 2 months or more (when I can offer the classes through select organizations), I'm offering the online classes directly through myself, starting in March 2026.

• All of the classes are open to anyone over the age of 18 (teens are also welcome to take the class with a parent or older friend and a parent's permission in writing). No prior art experience is necessary. Just an open mind and a willingess to be kind to all who participate.  

• I will design each individual participant's instruction around their particular goals for the class. While they are group classes, I will instruct each student both individually, as well as within the group (no one will be pushed to share personal information that they aren't comfortable sharing and anyone can ask to limit their instruction to a separate room, if they aren't comfortable sharing their work/instruction with the group). Private art as healing instruction is also available both in-person and remotely, upon request.