About

When I started Radiant Eye Studio, I wanted to use visual art to help people the way it has helped me.

As a teenager, I had a traumatic brain injury that changed how my memory works and, later, my vision. Recovering meant retraining my brain, and years later, I retrained my eyes through therapy built almost entirely on images. Both taught me the same thing: I understand the world best through visuals. That's where the name Radiant Eye comes from, and it's behind everything I make.

I studied animation and puppetry at Bennington College, then worked as a puppet fabricator and wrangler for Spiffy Pictures, Blair Thomas, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, and more. Puppetry taught me how a single object can carry a whole story through performance. Fabrication taught me how to solve problems with my hands and build things that hold up in real spaces, in front of real audiences.

That led me to live visual note-taking. I spent six years drawing full time for one of the top graphic recording studios in the country, capturing more than 300 live sessions for teams in tech, healthcare, finance, and nearly every industry in between. In 2024, I moved from Chicago to Brooklyn and brought it all together: visual notes, murals, workshops, and talks about how the brain makes sense of what it sees.

If you look closely at my work, you'll find the same few things again and again: eyes, hands, flowers, and doorways into other worlds. They come from a visual world I've been building for decades, and every new project invites people into a little more of that magic.