My art making and design process embraces the use of the accidental—the serendipity of creation. My creative relationship to the accidental began while taking an intaglio printmaking class with Professor Douglas Kinsey at the University of Notre Dame. Here I learned to only intend so much when creating, to let go to the process of the medium, and to always consider the work may be done even before you realize it. I honed this process making monotype prints when I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'd decided I wanted to make prints, but I had no press. Making do with my car, I fashioned a wrapped pallet to hold the papers I had painted with inks and paints, then discovered my own process of printmaking when I drove over the pallet that first time, smushing the paint into the dampened paper under the wheel. In recent years, with the onslaught of digital technology, I have created similar processes within the digital medium, often using my iPhone and a bevy of apps, filters and programs.