I often have intense feelings that are hard to contain, so I make art with them as a way to expand the vessel I carry them with and relieve the pressure inside me. Words are often involved. I love color, but my work usually ends up being black and white. Maybe I’ll figure out why someday.

I started the areyoubookenough bookbinding challenge because I needed to make meaningful connections with other bookbinders and book artists, and I built Editions because I know what it’s like to want to create work that embodies your soul and not have the tools to do it.

I don’t actually make any money doing any of this, so by day, I’m an instructional designer at Socrata and you can see examples of the work I do there on my @sensibledandy page.

I have a master’s in linguistics and words are my dearest friends in any language.

Portrait by @virginiaroberts taken at the back door of @editions.studio.