My studio has never been a single place. It is a pathway—a k’yuu—a ladder between worlds. I was born and raised in Southeast Alaska, a place defined by water, tide, salt, and cedar. Creativity happens on beaches, in forests, on docks, and in the tight corners of kitchen tables in fishing villages. Over the years, my studio has taken shape in many spaces: bright kitchens, rain-lit picnic tables, temporary rentals, borrowed rooms, ferry decks, roadside pullouts, and fields where the wind moves through tall grass. Everything begins with the salmon. Born in the cold, clear streams of Alaska, salmon dip into the vast Pacific, disappearing to where the water meets the sky in a long, shimmering embrace, and return years later to the exact waters of their birth.
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