Nomadic Echo was born from a mix of routine and creative spark, then grew into a blooming passion, and now has transformed into an expanding way of life and continued purpose to share awareness + love for our planet earth while living within a purely authentic freedom I had to discover along the way.
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I have spent lifetimes within this lifetime trying to conform to a society I was never meant to be apart of, or at least the way I was “trained” to be. After 29 years of trial and era, I disappeared from this “American Dream” to begin a new journey.
Spring 2018 my x partner and I fully converted a mini school bus into our home and began a free life full of love, lessons, and wild adventures. I spent the next 3 years living in national forest's throughout Colorado, working odd jobs, playing in the woods, and utilizing home base (Fort Collins) as needed. It was a constant learning experience, either my partner teaching me something useful, or one of our many oppositions that were almost constant while figuring out life on a bus out in nature or in town. Those first 2 years we're some of the best yet hardest periods of my life, but with each challenge presented, the lessons became more and more addictive. Pushing ourselves into the unknown constantly, slowly became our known. My partner had been living feral and free in the mountains for 15+ years, all of this was new to me but quickly became natural. My brain began to rewire without me even trying. I cared less and less about what used to matter and began my wild reset to what is actually important.
​Wherever I stay, I always strive to clean up after previous campers and leave my temporary home better than when I arrived. So, while I was happily going along my routine of cleaning up trash, and bouncing around blissfully from campsite to campsite deep in the woods, an idea was brewing. My creative brain wanted to do something MORE!
​Now, for the past 4 years I spend hours and sometimes days cleaning up years of broken glass embedded into the dirt, bullet shells, rusty cans, bread ties, bottle caps, and soooo much more discarded by humans who either weren't aware they'd let something drop, or didn't particularly care. Even at the top of breathtaking secluded mountains most people do not and/or cannot adventure to, there is trash thrown in trees, behind rocks, and piled in fire rings. BUT, amongst all the garbage, I unearth all sorts of trashy treasures that are collected, cleaned, and then stored to be used down the road in one of my upcycled crafts. No piece of glass or trash is too small, everything is collected from these campsites I call home.
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By creating this art my long term goal is to bring awareness, reach + encourage all visitors to help maintain clean forests, reduce solid waste within the forest, and embrace the ideas of reduce, reuse, and recycle. AND of course, continue to live my beautiful blissful life full of love and freedom, while cleaning up the world one campsite at a time.
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After many wild and transformative adventures my partner and I peacefully parted ways, and I began my solo quest 3 years ago. In the beginning it was challenging + painfully lonely, but I knew what I was doing was right even if I had to blindly continue forward into the unknown alone. I have pushed myself beyond limits I didn't know exist and lived a very delicate balance of survival while staying true to ME and what I have learned over this time away from society. All of the challenges I have endured and continue to experience are NOTHING compared to me attempting to survive the 29 years prior in the "real world". And that's what has kept my heart strong and my journey forward true.
