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I am a researcher and artist based in Ventura, California, working primarily with handmade analog systems and plant-based photo developers. I’m an artist in residence at Taft Gardens and teaching an alternative photography course at a local high school. 

I’m exploring the intersections of DIY, experimental photography, marine cultures, and feminist political ecology. My aim is for this website to eventually function as a resource for all sorts of open access material related to these topics and more, but, I have a lot to do still on designing how that will work. If you want to talk more about this or you just want to say hi, send me an email, and in the meantime, check out this incredibly disorganized but great for idle browsing zine that my friend Mia and I are working on. (link in text).