Hi! Some time has gone by...but here I am!   If you don't know me, I'm a musician, artist and educator, originally from upstate New York.  My current home is in Florida.  When I'm not busy teaching Music to schoolchildren, I perform as a solo act at various public or private venues.   

 

My musical taste is diverse, as I am a classically trained vocal major via The Crane School of Music, but was taught piano by my dad, who is a great improviser and accompanist.  My mom would want you to know that she plays the radio:  Thanks, Mom, that is how I learned to love so many old standards!   

 

I also love to create art that represents my belief that transformation of forms is a kind of resurrection and rebirth.   To find a broken and discarded object and see its beauty, its potential, and ultimately transform it into a lasting piece of art is a healing and meditative process for me.   It is a process that informs my consciousness that there is no death, really, just a transformation of form.  More on that later....

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What is Wow Street?

 

The origin of this name started in 2012 as a push back against "Wall Street" and the elite, entitled 1%.

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I started creating fashion ties from expensive designer men's ties, adding whimsical embroidery, laser printed fabric money and beads.  I was intentionally deconstructing the symbol of the business tie and reinventing its stereotyped male power image to reflect a strong feminine and artistic presence. The small green and white "Wow Street"  labels on the back of the ties look like a street sign and became my signature. 

During that time, I was recovering from a traumatic brain injury, taking long, slow, painful  walks in South Florida, and I became fascinated with the voluptuous forms of the palm fronds and husks, as well as the curved pods from the poinciana tree, which resembled deformed spines, in my eyes.

 

I felt intuitively that if I could create something beautiful and artistic out of these ugly, twisted pods, I would begin to heal. I experimented with attaching parts of an old motherboard from a computer to the pods and husks, thinking that they reminded me of a brain and the intelligence of nature, of the body's  ability to heal itself. 

 

The results were spectacular and unusual.  I started selling them and was  amazed at the responses that people sent me.   My artwork has been described as "shamanic"  and "healing".  My first customer was a priest, who saw one of my pieces at a florist's shop, where he read my artist's statement and related it to his Catholic foundations and the universal themes of mystery, suffering, resurrection and transformation. 

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As my work and my inner process have evolved, Wow Street has come to mean so much more.  I have extended the label's connotation to the acronym "World Of We". It feels so much better to include everyone, even the 1%.  We are all in this world together, each on our own path, but yet connected, held by a Higher Power.  

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The image I chose for my logo is a little street sign posted along a highway, against the freedom of an open sky.

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Wow Street is where I want to live.  It is a place that feeds my imagination, creativity, love and personal power.  It is a place of teaching, learning, transformation, singing, performing, writing, composing and making connections with like-minded souls -even the occasional haters.  "Wow!"  I say to myself as I go on my way, "It takes all kinds of people...."

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Wow Street is anywhere and everywhere that you are awed by the beauty and fury of nature, the paradoxes in existence and the sometimes unbearable emotions of being human:   Wow, that's amazing. Wow, that's awful. Just Wow.

 

That's the World of We.

 

Thank you for visiting and being part of my journey.

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