How did a goth girl from Wisconsin fall madly in love with art, study it, train in it, give herself fully to it and wind up as a Senior Creative Director at Playboy? Dunno. Life, like art, can be mysterious, surprising, unfathomable. But wherever life has chosen to take me, art (predominantly painting--with the occasional, reckless detour into poetry) has been there to calm me, whisper in my ear and softly stroke my sanity.