Artist, bricoleur, collector, expat New Yorker loving Berlin in the 'teens.

I'm a classically trained figurative artist.
I've worked as a courtroom artist for CBS and CNN, a penciller for DC Comics' Star Trek, and as a portraitist and live drawing documentarian, which is a description I made up for going to fetish parties and drawing. Like Toulouse-Lautrec, but with boobs. 

From 2005 to 2010 I made thousands of live drawings and portraits of people in the Bay Area kink, goth, Burner, Steampunk and Maker communities.

It was the most beautiful, meaningful, joyful thing I've ever done. All the drawings are available here on flickr for anyone to print out or publish with attribution. But I couldn't make a living at it.





In March of this year I moved to Berlin to try and make a living as an artist again, in a more affordable environment.

I didn't make any art for the first couple months, because I was afraid to take energy away from searching for a job, any kind of job to help us get settled here.

Then some loved ones suggested they'd like to help me document life here, as an artist. You could be the hacker Isherwood, Khris Brown said.

This page is a way to help support my work. You can give as a little as $5 per post, which will be a piece of art or writing published on my blog, chipinhead.com, and set a limit on how much you want to contribute per month, as little as $5 per month. In Berlin $5 is a delicious falafel, so I'd be thrilled to have it!

This is my first go at any crowdfunding, though my husband and I support friends like Kitty Stryker through Patreon and other sites, and I'd value your feedback on how you'd like it to work. I'd love to know what kind of content you'd like to see.  Most of all, thank you so much for being willing to help.

*Top photo by Justin Quimby, video by John Ashton-Keller, portrait of me painting Eva at Bunker 1 by John Adams