Artist, traveller, lover, adventurer, collector, feminist, taker of photographs, do-er of things, eater of food. I enjoy a nice balance of hard work and hedonism.

My day-to-day life consists of:

Enjoying adulthood - it's great, right? Every year tops the last.

Making jewellery and selling it.

Thinking about my currently almost non-existent art practice. Representation, abstraction, illusion and system-making are themes I'm always returning to. My work sits somewhere between sculpture and painting and seems to get more conceptual each year. These last few months saw me busy working on an art project that a bunch of us took all the way from NZ to Burning Man, but I once more crave my own studio space.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

In 2012 I spent four and a half months overseas and CS was absolutely amazing! My cousin Jess and I couch surfed in San Francisco, LA, Long Beach, New York, Brighton and London. Our surfing experiences were awesome and we have met beautiful and generous people who we will be friends with for life. I'm so glad we chose to travel in this manner. I have also done a small amount of couchsurfing in Colombia in 2014 which was great.

Here in NZ I have met and hosted some other great CSers. One of our couchsurfers ended up living with us for most of a year!

Interests

Here are some things I like:

Being around lots of trees
Festivals, especially burns
Dancing for hours on end
Eating things I've grown
Ethical non-monogamy
Listening to podcasts
Making new friends
Working for myself
Body modification
Contemporary art
My 50mm lens
Board games
Bubble tea
Languages
Cuddling
Patterns
Plants

• arts
• contemporary art
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• gardening
• board games
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• podcasts
• skiing
• languages
• hitchhiking
• food
• linguistics
• plants
• body modification
• kink
• ecstatic dance
• polyamory

Music, Movies, and Books

Podcasts: This American Life, Invisibilia, Freakonomics, Reply All, Savage Lovecast, Risk, Serial, Radiolab, 99% Invisible.

Books: Trainspotting (and other books by Irvine Welsh), Last Exit to Brooklyn, One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Junky, The Bone People, Rage is Back, Requiem for a Dream, Just Kids, Slaughterhouse Five.

Music: Oneness, Charlesthefirst, Valentin Stip, Kaminanda, Ignatz, Tipper, Shlohmo, Nosaj Thing, Kalya Scintilla, CFCF, Auditory Canvas, Chad VanGaalen, Teebs, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Paul Baribeau, Evenings, Gold Panda, Devendra Banhart, Toots and the Maytals, Bon Iver, Slint, Dystopia, the Doors, Modest Mouse, Pixies.

Films: Rain, Trainspotting, Gummo, No Country for Old Men, Almost Famous, Boy, This is England, Tim's Vermeer, Wayne's World.

TV: Mad Men, Master of None, Better Call Saul, Peep Show, Game of Thrones, Broad City, Bob's Burgers, Transparent, Outrageous Fortune, Look Around You, Girls, Breaking Bad, The Mighty Boosh, IT Crowd, Californication, Black Books.

Food: That shredded potato chilli thing you can get at Chinese restaurants. Anything matcha flavoured. Tom yum. Tempe. Halloumi.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Skiing in Park City, Utah. Driving through Monument Valley and Death Valley. Road tripping around the Scottish highlands and dancing at a ceilidh. Going to the biggest water park in North America. Hitchhiking around the South Island of New Zealand. Burning Man 2013. The Bolivian Altiplano. Magical plants and pyramids in Peru. Tierradentro in Colombia. Falling in love in Indonesia.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm qualified to teach English as a second language... So I can tell you some weird things about how English works.

I'm also good at taking photos of people and can share some tips.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Lots of travel stories!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Peru, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand

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