"The value of an artwork is the extent to which it touches you"

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Okakura Kakuzo, The book of Tea

                                             

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This is both my answer and the beginning of my pursuit of art’s intrinsic value.

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Fascinated by the ungraspable, transformative power of art, I research and explore how art moves us in a time when almost everything appears possible, producible, and consumable, yet guidance feels scarce. I explore how art may become a living encounter, guiding, nurturing healing, cultivating inner wisdom, and creating belonging rather than something merely to be consumed or possessed.

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How do we meet art?
Why does it hold value for us?
How may we deepen and embed its touch?

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As an Art Guide, I create ways to listen and deepen our resonance with art.

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I guide collectors, art lovers, and the curious in cultivating a deeper relationship with art and objects. By giving insight into their Taste Regime, a living expression of one's values, desires, and interests, I encourage a sensibility through which artworks may continue to resonate, unfold, and guide us throughout life.

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Within Performative Hosting, I create spaces that encourage openness, stillness, and attunement to the poetics of the space and the artwork. I work with my presence, gestures, creative collaborators, and an ensemble of objects that invite participation. A delicate dance between guidance and poetic openness, hosting and performance.

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Within the hosting ensemble, I create, commission, and curate objects as guides, forming transition spaces for encountering art.

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I develop cultural models that embody art’s intrinsic value. Grounded in macroeconomics, my research into resonance and hosting, the agency of objects, and my work with foundations, these models create the conditions for art to guide, cultivate, and regenerate.

 

Art has moved and transformed me.
It is this space I hold for others.