CURRENT MISSION

to love and appreciate each moment as I live it

ABOUT ME

I am an artist, trained as a printmaker (collagraph, woodcut, and linocut in particular). I am currently working on my Master's Degree. I love learning about physics and am passionate about developing innovative curriculum for STEAM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Art-Mathematics) education! I also work one-on-one with scientists as an Expressive Arts Coach to support their research.

I have had incredible experiences with couchsurfing over the years, and I'm excited for more to come!

PHILOSOPHY

quotes that I love from a few artists...

"The painting starts off as one things and if that doesn't work I try something else until a memory of all these things is in it but none of them is particularly true except the one I've picked to title the work. The picture is a summing-up of all the mistakes; it is what's left." Steven Campbell

"If you keep the original inspiration, that which fascinates you at the beginning or for a year, or a month or half an hour or for however long it takes, you might arrive at a conclusion." David Donaldson

"The creative process is at its most potent when it is a negotiation between what is willed and what happens involuntarily." Tony Swain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have been hosted by many generous people, I have met up with people in my home city to show them around, and I wish I was in a position to host... one day!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So many adventures that I could never have dreamed of experiencing without CS. Seeing the sites of a foreign place is always nice, but getting to know people who actually live there is something altogether different.

Interests

visual art, capoeira, dance, languages, history, psychology, biking, swimming, hiking, snowboarding, farming and playing in the dirt whenever the opportunity arises

• arts
• dancing
• capoeira
• painting
• cycling
• hiking
• snowboarding
• swimming
• history
• languages
• psychology
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Alt-J, Beirut, The Tuneyards, Hiatus Kaiyote, Belle and Sebastian, Idan Raichel, Balkan Beat Box... everyone's gotta love a little Shakira...

Everything Kurt Vonnegut. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is also one of my favorite books, and I was fortunate enough to see him speak on my university campus.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

collecting seaweed on a beach in Costa Rica to use as mulch for the farm I was working on at the time.

Teach, Learn, Share

I used to be a gymnast and am now a capoeirista, and I have been teaching acrobatics classes to my capoeira group in Colorado. I am happy to give tips on handstands, cartwheels, and the like!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, Switzerland, United Kingdom