In 2021, I renewed my interest in Ikebana under the creative guidance of my very talented teacher, Sandy Marker. During and after each class, waves of energized calm sweep over me.

As a young child, I was introduced to a range of Japanese arts through vacation care classes, that included Ikebana, Japanese tea ceremony and Bunka embroidery. These activities started my love affair for Japanese aesthetics of simplicity, understated beauty and asymmetrical balance. My creative journey has been with sculpture and 3D art using recycled, reused, waste organic and industrial material, that I transformed into biomorphic forms with new identities. Sogetsu Ikebana is definitely the path that combines and extends my love of the sculptural beauty of the botanical world, whatever stage of life, while being able to create harmony, space and form. As my happy place, I will continue to travel this path to experience those "in the moment discoveries".