About

I'm a designer based in Madrid, New Mexico. I design geometric and organic patterns, and I see them through to fabrication in metal, wood, and printed materials - whatever the final piece requires.

The geometric work is built from fundamental tiles that repeat across a plane by precise mathematical rules. The traditions behind it run deep - Islamic geometric design, Japanese kumiko, Celtic interlace, Art Deco, Gothic tracery - but every design is original.

Organic patterns come from a different place. I write simulations that model natural processes - the same mathematics that drives animal markings and crystal growth. Spots, stripes, labyrinths, branching structures: all generated, all precise, all difficult to draw by hand.

This work sits inside a longer conversation about pattern as serious art. In the 1970s, the artists of the Pattern and Decoration movement - many of them women reclaiming quilting, tilework, and textile from the margins - argued that ornament belongs in the front rank of the fine arts. I see mine as part of that lineage: decorative and rigorous at once, refusing to choose between beauty and structure.

I apply these patterns at every scale: architectural surfaces and public art, printed textiles, and pieces small enough to wear. The forms that work as a building facade also work as a brass pendant.

The same patience that fills a pendant fills a panel.

Since 2025 I have designed exhibits and built structures, including the complete interior of the Route 66 Visitor Center for the City of Albuquerque and the BioPark Aquarium touch pool.

See the design build work →