A life between the chisel and the wheel.

Before the wheel there was the convent: ten years as a monastic member of the Vedanta Society, an interior formation as concrete as any studio apprenticeship. She left with a question rather than an answer, took an MFA at Goddard University, and returned to stone.

“Specific ideas for the World Wheel came to me in a dream. I saw myself carving sculptures out of the living rock and involving people from many cultures in a process of ritual in a giant circle around the world.”

Between 1986 and 1993 she carried that dream around the planet — twelve sites, from Malibu westward to Japan, each with an environmental sculpture carved from the living rock and a ceremony made from the community's own answers to her three questions. The Second World Wheel followed and has never stopped: the Amazon, the Andes of Ecuador, Senegal, Los Angeles, Australia, the Republic of Georgia.

She is the author of World Wheel: One Woman's Quest for Peace, Liberty, and Of Earth & Fire, and the writer-director of the feature documentary about the wheel. Today she paints, writes, and is gathering voices for a new film — Voices for World Peace.