My trip to Ghana!

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Mountains

Moving away from all the words and detail of term papers and final exams! Continue reading →

From the archives

Paging back through my sketch books, with Africa in mind:   Continue reading →

Ghana!

Plans for the summer? I have plans, and I am excited to share! At the end of May, I will be off to Ghana for a global health program with the NGO Operation Groundswell. While I may not be able to take stowaways, you can get involved, have your voice heard and follow my adventures … Continue reading →

Colds Around The World

Sore throat, stuffy nose? Do you make a cup of tea?    Reach for an orange?    Eat a clove of garlic? When you experience symptoms or have premonitions of a common cold what do you do? What foods do you eat, drinks do you consume? Or, conversely what do you avoid?   I am doing a … Continue reading →

Illustrated Journal Covers

A botanist’s journal: Front cover Back Cover Panorama View Cut away: Continue reading →

Dabblings in details and flowers

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An Environmentalist’s Apartment Style Christmas

My ‘sustainable’ Scandinavian style Christmas tree. Holiday spirit or final exam procrastination ? Continue reading →

Fudraising

To raise funds for my service learning experience examining the social determinants of health in the context of  New Orleans , this February, I am selling original art, prints, and jewellery. Just in time for the holidays… Jewellery Original art work, with prints available Please contact me if you have questions concerning the pieces for … Continue reading →

What’s On your Plate? I am asking you…

The project: Daily Dinners 2- A portrait in Food  This project seeks to explore the context and stories that surround food and food behaviors. This is a follow up on my project `Daily Dinners- a Portrait in Food`completed in 2011. I am interested in ordinary daily dinners. This could be anything from homemade, microwaved, take … Continue reading →

Japanese Maple

An acrylic based on a beautiful photograph of a Japanese maple from National Geographic. Continue reading →

Van Gogh Study

This acrylic is a Study of Van Gogh’s “Japonaiserie: Flowering Plum Tree. This acclaimed painter’s piece is an artists exploration into other cultures, and represents a reproduction and interpretation of Hiroshige’s “Plum Orchard, Kameido” Continue reading →

Your Cup of Tea?

A visual exploration into tea culture. I am fascinated with tea and the traditional and practices in which it is steeped. This is a look into the components of the London Fog, and more generally the Western interpretation of tea. The background is composed of scenes from a sugar cane plantation, Chinese landscape and newspaper … Continue reading →

Summer Peas

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Sketchbook Peaks: Book 2 (2010-2011)

Interpretation of a Chinese window hanging. Memories of my Grandmothers travels. Reproduction of Peruvian traditional wall hanging. Memories of my Grandmothers travels.        Study and research on Paul Sinac’s watercolors Study and artist research Dr John Bellany CBE RA Sickert Strode these streets, Dieppe Seen at the Royal Academy London Thoughts biodiversity, food production and … Continue reading →

School and Art?

The long view: First year university Psychology course. The notes are assembled thought out the semester and consolidated into a single large poster as preparation for the final exam. The product is rolled and stored (never to be looked at again). Details: Continue reading →

The Balcony Garden

My balcony is south-facing and gets very hot during the daylight hours. I have it sectioned off on a Mediterranean area (marked with the Ikea bag garden) and on the opposite side the  ‘Canadian’, characterized with an abundance of kale, greens, beans, peas and squash. The set up: :     Continue reading →

About me: Preoccupations

Medical anthropology: Social inequality, cultural, environmental, political, and economic issues focalized through health and health behavior. I hope to approach a career in medicine within the context of society, wherein which each citizen plays and occupies a unique space, but is seen as part of a larger whole. As the British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and … Continue reading →

Sketchbook Peaks

My sketchbooks are deeply personal and represent my space to reflect, create and explore. Filled with sketches, experiments, thoughts, essays and artist research, these books provide the platform from which I can interpret my world. Although I have dappled in the pages of bound journals, notebooks and sheaves of artist paper periodically throughout my life, … Continue reading →

Growing in my Garden

Summer 2012: A backyard full of space Summer 2013: An adventure in much more urban agriculture; producing as much green edible biomass on my tiny apartment balcony Continue reading →

Jewelery

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Past Projects

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Community Project

Title: Daily Dinners- A Portrait in Food Dimensions: 1m x 1.5m 2011 Materials: photography and short text Description: This community based project focuses on quotidian meals of participants on my neighborhood. Food when viewed as a self portrait represents a deeply personal expression of whom and what we are. As a central pillar of culture, … Continue reading →

Sping Cherry Blossom

Backyard cherry blossom time lapse photography experimentation Continue reading →