I make my home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. I trained as an actor, theatre designer and in the visual arts. I worked in the theatre as an actor, writer, director and costumer. It was a career that I later ended up not enjoying. I loved the theatre… but not so much the people. Going back to when I was a toddler I developed Alice in Wonderland Syndrome… an illness that’s connected to body, spacial and time perception. It is a malady that usually ends in childhood with mild symptoms, but continued with me throughout my life. The symptoms got more serious with severe migraines in my teens and left temporal lobe seizures starting in my twenties. I never told anyone when I was in school or anyone I worked with in the theatre setting that I suffered from brief seizures… where I would lose my memory for a short time. I felt that I’d rather have them think I was unorganized or late or forgetful than dismiss me as mentally sick. After I left the theatre my seizures got worse and I developed Trigminal Neuralgia on the left side of my face… possibly brought on by the seizures. Neuralgia is a painful nerve condition that causes nonstop pain. But I used the pain as a catalyst to start taking self-portraits. What I felt inside and what I saw on the outside did not aline with me and I wanted to bring the two together. I started taking more photographs of other subject matter and wanted to express how I saw the world through my askewed vision. And I continue to do so to this day. I work at my own pace and I appreciate photography for helping me heal.
Model, Actress, Photographer, Whatever 