Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Varies
Location	Recently of the Bronx, New York, United States
Links	Audio Clip
Introduction	artist, designer, writer, photographer, meditator, and former Philadelphian and New Yorker. Currently nomadic.
Interests	painting, driving, cooking, movies, trees, asia, dharma, public radio, small towns with lots of book readers and a clean river, calligraphy, vegetable gardens, ikebana, visual culture, pigs & elephants, residential design, sound & silence, stationary stores, France, Norway, Iceland, Canada, Hong Kong
Favorite movies	"A Fish Called Wanda, " "Don't Come Knockin, " "Alice, " "Rivers & Tides, " "Wag the Dog, " "Le Gout des Autres, " "The Matrix, " "Amelie, " "The Incredibles, " "Star Wars, " anything with Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, or Jackie Chan, "Totoro," "Blue, White, Red" Koslowski trilogy
Favorite music	My Brightest Diamond, Abigail Washburn, Talking Heads, Oscar Peterson, Paul Desmond, Camille Saint-Saens, Ralph von Williams, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Warren Vache, Sufjan Stevens, PJ Harvey, My Brightest Diamond, The Flaming Lips, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Bill Frisell, Nina Simone, Charlie Parker, Bruce Meldau, Steely Dan, Tracy Chapman, Leo Brouwer, Eric Friedlander, Suphala, Marta Sebestyen
Favorite books	"Resucitation of a Hanged Man" - Denis Johnson "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" - Lawrence Weschler "The Colossus of Maroussi" - Henry Miller "No Ordinary Land" - Virginia Beahan & Laura McPhee "Blue Highways" - William Least Heast Moon "Littlefoot" - Charles Wright "The Courage of Turtles" (story) - Edward Hoagland "Zeitoun" - Dave Eggers "The Wind in the Willows" - Kenneth Graeme "House of Leaves" - Mark Danielewski "The Hours" - Michael Cunningham "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - Robert Persig "The Botany of Desire" - Michael Pollan

For your birthday, your aunt gave you a maple syrup dispenser shaped like a rooster. Please write her a thank-you note:

How did you know I have a little fetish for chicken-things? And you know how much I love maple syrup on my hot cereal, so I'll have a nice laugh every morning as I make breakfast.