About

Link to: “A Defence of Artists”

Winter-Maker, I hope, is a moniker for my composite life as an artist. In the past I have struggled to focus my creative passions, to simplify the definition of me–but I have found that my performance, writing, and visual expressions are all inextricably woven into a single story.

Winter-Maker is a tale of perseverance. Perseverance in the darkest, coldest night, a pinprick in the canopy of black velvet sky. Small gestures to survive and give meaning. To never surrender the parts of myself that make me feel human and connected to the collective heart.

I feel happiest when I’m in a theatre: waiting in the dim glow backstage, living in the blinding light on stage. Filling a space with my voice, hoping the vibrations are resonating in other chests.

Similarly, my putting pen to paper is an emotive effort to draw lines of relation–to make people laugh or ache. To make sense of our experience here in the nightness of life.

Lastly, my embroidery art is concerned with the tiny details that exist in nature. Little missives created to spark joy in the darkness.