ABOUT:

 is a curator, artist, historian, researcher, and seamstress. She believes the utopian is humanist and that a perfect future exists through independent thought, creativity, and community. Her interdisciplinary artistic and academic skills consistently align with interests in cities, urban design, ecology, housing, art, aesthetics, and culture. Blending writing, research, and art with the built urban environment as her subject, Anna has built a portfolio with a truly unique look at today's world.

 

San Francisco buildings are the main subject of her work. This can be seen in detailed line drawings of the church she was baptized in, or the unique architecture she would collage in her mind while looking up at buildings observed through car and bus windows. Her abstract and obsessive visualization of trees simultaneously gives nature both a controlled and untamed feeling, symbolic of the complex personalities cities themselves create.

 

Anna believes strongly in the motto of artist Lauren Bon's Metabolic Studio: "Artists Need to Create On the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy" 

 

 This is the understanding of art not just as something that fills a blank museum wall, but as a broader device for making real, lasting societal change, necessary in solving some of the issues found in our current day dystopia.

 

Think of a Doc Martin x Blundstone x Timberland kind of “boots on the ground” approach.