In 2008, I lived in rural South Africa for the calendar year, working for a small nonprofit media organization that educated and employed South African women as journalists. While apartheid had ended 14 years earlier, the country was still very much trying to unshackle itself from apartheid’s lasting effects, including poverty, unemployment, HIV rates, and
In 2011-2012, my husband Michael and I put thousands of miles on our car—more than can be counted since the odometer stopped working partway through. It’s not about miles, anyway, but what those miles contained: forests with giant tress, deserts with fierce windstorms, moonrises and megalopolises, looming factories and golden fields. We didn’t know where
In early 2014, I was asked to speak about my work at a quarterly presentation series called Beer+Design, which promotes creative interaction of a broad spectrum of disciplines, such as design, architecture, landscape, art, photography, music, etc. Instead of giving a traditional talk, I created short film with clips from my reel and wrote a narration, which I delivered