I’m an artist, maker, and lifelong collector of the strange, beautiful, and meaningful.
I grew up in the Connecticut Valley in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and moved to the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, in second grade. I spent my younger years exploring, wandering, and adventuring, living in Maine, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, following the Grateful Dead, and eventually making my way back to Charleston. From there, I ventured west and ended up staying for nearly 30 years. Eventually, the pull of Maine brought me back home.
All of those places and experiences have found their way into my work. I’ve always been drawn to old stories, folklore, mythology, astrology, alchemy, nature, stones, plants, treasure hunting, worn and unusual things, and objects that seem to carry a little history with them. I’m fascinated by the connections between the natural world, the symbolic world, and the stories we use to make sense of being human.
Alchemy, in particular, has always resonated with me as both an ancient tradition and a metaphor for transformation. I love the idea that ordinary materials can be combined, changed, and given new meaning. Astrology offers another language for understanding cycles, archetypes, relationships, and the rhythms of our lives. These influences naturally find their way into the things I make.
Flying Moose Alchemy grew out of that fascination. What began with my love of stones and jewelry has become a larger creative world of wearable magic and ritual goods, including handmade talismans, adornments, botanical creations, and curious objects inspired by the woods, mythology, symbolism, and the wonderfully mysterious edges of everyday life.
I’m interested in the space between the practical and the magical. I don’t believe everything needs to be explained or proven to be meaningful. Sometimes a piece simply speaks to you. Sometimes a plant, stone, symbol, constellation, or old story reminds you of something you already knew somewhere deep down.
I make things slowly, intuitively, and with a great deal of attention to detail. I’m happiest when I’m surrounded by my materials, my animals, a garden that is probably getting slightly out of hand, and some new idea that I absolutely have to make.
For me, making is a way of paying attention to the natural world, to history, to beauty, to transformation, and to the small bits of magic we might otherwise walk right past.