Welcome to my page.

As a young child growing up in Poland (just prior to the imposition of martial law), there was a book I loved with stories and staggering images of mythical ocean creatures, sea serpents, mermaids, monsters, and heroes to defeat them. At the age of six I moved to Germany with my family, and in this overwhelming and busy transition, my book got lost. (Also lost in the move: a single letter in the spelling of my first name…) For many years, I tried to find my book, but my parents couldn’t remember the title. I contacted the people who had moved into our old house, but to no avail. Years later I even went back and searched every corner of the old attic myself, but I never saw the book again. Even today, I still find myself searching the web for at least a few images that I think I remember through an increasingly foggy cloud of time.

This story reflects pretty much what interests and drives me in my recent artwork, both in my engagement with glitches and in experiments with other error-prone forms of memory: it’s the fleeting and irretrievable moments that are noticed sometimes only in hindsight and the attempts to capture and freeze a moment in time that may hardly have existed, if at all.

Growing up in a family with a rich intercultural history, I was always fascinated with stories that juxtapose personal and historic dimensions in the irretrievable passing of time. My curiosity about human inter- and intrapersonal experiences is one of the main threads running throughout my professional choices and artistic expressions. Always seeking inner peace and balance with nature and the outdoors, I also care deeply about preservation and protection for our planet, and especially its wildlife — the subject of much of my work.

I love to experiment with a variety of materials, media, and technologies. My art interrogates the shifting boundaries between physical, digital, and mixed materialities — and the ways that such materialities shape and reshape the temporal unfolding of our perceptions. I paint mostly in acrylic, and I use augmented reality and other computational processes to merge physical objects with digital photography, glitch-based video, and virtual 3D objects.

I hold a master’s degree in education, as well as a Montessori degree, and I’m a certified systemic counselor. For several years, I worked in Germany as a teacher for children with special needs in emotional and social contexts. In 2015 – 2016 I was the art instructor for the Duke University International House in Durham, NC. After moving to the Bay Area in 2016, I worked as the Resource Specialist Teacher at the German International School of Silicon Valley in San Francisco, as well as Art Teacher for their middle school.