CURRENT MISSION

provoking thought through site specific installation

ABOUT ME

After finishing my Masters degree in Baltimore, I moved last summer to Knoxville, TN to start a job at the University of Tennessee, School of Art. I live in the historic neighborhood called Mechanicsville. I am still getting settled myself, but if you'd like to go exploring, let me know!

PHILOSOPHY

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couch surfing has changed my entire perception of visiting a new place. I've met so many incredible people along the way, who've enjoyed my stripped couch, and surfed on many others. Once you've had a chance to go to the local Russian bar dedicated to Ska music, or enjoy delicious chinese food in a local section of Paris, you learn that the most important part of the trip is the people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In the US, I've definitely done my share of surfing on other sofas, from Philly to Maine to up and down the West Coast. With Couch Surfing specifically, I went on a 3 week adventure through Europe, meeting new friends in Munich, Paris, and Berlin.

Interests

Sculpture, Traveling, Cooking, Road trips, Coffee houses, Classic Movies, Cartoons, Bartending, Swimming, Caving, Hockey, Beer Tasting, etc.

• arts
• dining
• cooking
• chinese food
• beer
• coffee
• cartoons
• movies
• traveling
• music
• spelunking
• surfing
• hockey
• swimming
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Music- the two gallants, cold war kids, erich skelton, eliott smith, broken social scene, red house painters, deerhoof, girltalk, the unicorns, of montreal, neutral milk hotel, patsy cline, and so on and so on.

Movies- The Thief and the Cobbler, Casablanca, The Last Unicorn, The Royal Tenenbaums, Frida, Lost in Translation, Office Space, Anything by Hitchcock or Wes Anderson, Love and War, The Big Lebowski, Jurassic Park, The Science of Sleep, The Fall, To Have and to Have Not, Howls Moving Castle

Books- Annie Dillard- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; Vladimir Nabokov- Speak Memory; Joan Didion- Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Eric Schlosser- Fast Food Nation; Mikhail Lermontov- A Hero for Our Times

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Jumped a train from Georgia to Alabama.
Toured 8 European countries before I was 4 years old.
Moved to 12 cities growing up and at one point, changed schools 4 times in 5 years.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Russian Federation, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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