I am an adventurer at heart with a love for the experience of exploration and curiosity. I grew up surrounded by art, particularly fibers, with my seamstress mom teaching me how to sew from a young age. Those early years snowballed into a love for all things fiber: knitting, macrame, cross-stitch and weaving. For me, the experience of exploration extends not only to the outside world but the vast world that is our own bodies, minds and souls. Art is a practice of presence - a gateway to dive into the heart and what it longs to say. It all comes together with much of my art pulling inspiration from both inner and outer nature.

Sama of OH BE JOYFUL BAGS creates functional and sustainable bags, wallets and smaller accessories from white water rafts that can no longer float. Instead of these much loved boats being wasted, they are deconstructed and then upcycled into fun, fashionable and sustainable products to live life another way.