It all began with a mushroom.

In 2023, burned out after years of travel, study, and work, I stumbled into photography by chance. A friend forgot her phone and asked me to take a picture of a mushroom she was interested in — and something shifted. What began as a simple favor became a new way of seeing the world.

Shortly after my birth in Portland, Oregon in 1977, my family moved to Houston, Tx — there I learned to find wildness even in a concrete jungle. That love of discovery carried me through years of living and traveling abroad but alongside it I carried something darker — brief, unexplained periods of sadness. After becoming a mother in 2012, the weight grew heavier and I spent over a decade living in the shadow of depression. In 2024, after years of searching for solutions, I finally found a treatment that worked.

These experiences live in my photographs, both the good and the bad. My work is about the pleasure and pain of transformation, about finding beauty in both the vast and the minute. Each image is part of a story unfolding — I invite you to step inside and find your own.