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Whitman’s
Mixed media relief · 1994
Growing up in Vermont, encouraged by my parents, I took an afterschool class at the Vermont Arts Exchange, one built around repurposing what businesses and households threw away. At the student art show, the store I featured bought my piece, my first and only sale.
I kept the photo and the note tucked away in my files for years. They finally have a home here, a reminder of an early creative chapter and the people and moments that encouraged it.
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Studio Ruse
Collage notebooks · 2008
Amy and I met early in our careers at a branding firm with a comping room that never stopped overflowing with paper samples and scraps. It was hard to watch all that beautiful paper be tossed out. So we started a side project to give it a second life. Amy taught me to hand-bind books, and we collaged the covers. We sold at craft fairs for a while, but what kept us going was the process itself: spending time together making something beautiful with our hands. Almost twenty years later, we still meet up regularly to make “art” in one form or another.
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@V-in-the-D
Photography, Instagram · 2022
I believe a city is best explored through a camera’s lens. I created V-in-the-D to reignite my love for photography, share what I find, and see Detroit in a way I would otherwise miss. Detroit is a city that is once again shapeshifting, and it has been wild to watch the transformation underway.
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Snack Clips
Collage · 2025
I make these snack clips by hand from cut paper, mostly old issues of Bon Appétit and the other magazines I still love subscribing to. Cutting the paper and gluing them down is slow, quiet, meditative work. The result is a playful kitchen tool that’s useful and pretty.
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“I’m Bored” — Creative adventures of Birdie and Pip
Children’s Book, Hand Illustrated · 2026
Creativity is a skill, and skills need practice. Screens are eating up downtime in a way that has made boredom unbearable for kids. We need to hold onto imagination and teach kids how.
In “I’m Bored,” Birdie learns to appreciate quiet time and, instead of reaching for her screen, picks up a paintbrush. That one act opens up a whole new world of creativity that she and her sister Pip explore together.