About Me
I’ve always been an observer, with a need for solitude. Art was a natural path for me, photography especially, because it let me be in the world in a way that held both space and closeness to people, to stories, to my own thoughts and understanding.
A late AuDHD (Autism + ADHD) diagnosis gave me language for what I’d never quite understood about myself. Psychology, community, and health grew as interests as I made sense of my own journey. Attention to detail, to pattern, to what exists under the surface of behavior was something I’d always had, and something I learned to cultivate as a photographer, and a therapist. Today, my experience, and desire to help others, lives in Apertura. My art and my writing are my more personal focus.
I grew up in the Canadian prairies, with stretches of my childhood spent in Kenya and Pakistan. It was an early immersion in cultural difference that stayed with me.
My professional path began in theater in Winnipeg, followed by a degree in Communications and then decades with multidisciplinary freelance work that included web development, graphic design, creative direction, and photography.
I was living in Montreal in 2008 when a visit to Mexico City’s circus scene turned into a decision to stay. My son and I found our home here.
What followed was ten years co-founding and building Casa de Artes y Circo Contemporáneo — a center built on quality education and community. It became a second home to many young adults. My work there centered on art education, community development, and international programs. The center continues today, at a smaller scale, focused on the classes and workshops it became known for.
My art moves across mediums; photography is the one I’ve worked in professionally. In my drawing, a human form recurs — often a silhouette, an interiority, with stories held in form and gesture. What happens in the process of making is what draws me to art. In Hilos Invisibles, a photographic series, the process was shared between me and the person I was photographing. The images are less a result than a witness to what it is to find a kind of stillness in the movement. Appearing, an ongoing series begun in 2025, is a phenomenological inquiry into how a person appears: not appearance as surface, but as the meeting of how we experience ourselves and how we are seen. These days I’m also writing more, and working on completing a first novel.
My interest in the role of arts in health eventually led me to clinical training: an MSc in Body Psychology and Body Psychotherapy (University of East London), and advanced training in Art Psychotherapy with the Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy, where I later taught (2022). As a professional art therapist my work focused on neurodivergence and complex trauma.
What I design for Apertura draws on that experience: an inclusive approach alongside an understanding of what art and creative process can do for connection and discovery. It is my art lab for study, inquiry, and creative practice.
A similar, more personal line of inquiry has found its way into essays I publish on Substack.