Although I am a visual artist, my work is always centered in text. (By that I just mean: I want to make people read poems I really love.) I’m interested in the visual qualities of words as well as their textual meanings. My goal is that the way words are presented visually and the meaning they contain speak with one voice.

More and more I am influenced by the palette and patterns of Amish and Mennonite quilts (a product of my Mennonite upbringing); by the geography of the Great Plains, where I grew up, and the Driftless Region of the upper Midwest, where I live now; and by historic folk lettering and calligraphy. As a disabled artist, I also see my calligraphy as a place where my neurodivergence can flourish and find expression.