Interests: art, alternative art, outsider art, art brut, surrealism, neo-surrealism, beading, jewelry making, wire work, book arts, book binding, fabric and textile art, dollmaking, painting, drawing, digital images, literature, arthur rimbaud, sylvia plath, dante, classical literature, ancient cultures, history, hellenic era, medieval literature, medieval history, hagiography, catholic imagery, goddess, saints, our lady of guadalupe, middle ages, renaissance, old english, middle english, french literature, modernism, post-modernism, poetry, literary criticism, music, nine inch nails, led zeppelin, jeff buckley, human drama, pj harvey, jill tracy, jane's addiction, tool, godsmack, a perfect circle, dead can dance, jimmy page, altered art, altered books, collage, digital collage, watercolors, acrylic, atc, atcs, antonin artaud, susan sontag, jacques derrida, lord byron, shelley, keats, de quincy, yeats