About 

Aundi is an interdisciplinary artist who creates works in a variety of media: wearable jewelry sculptures, analog and digital photography, mixed media and metals sculpture work, experimental video, and performance. She’s performed as a found object and shadow puppeteer, provoked audience reactions as a circus bouffon, and has exhibited visual artworks in the SF Bay area and further north in California. 

Having been an educator and learning experience designer in parallel with her artistic practice, Aundi takes a design thinking, and interactive approach to her creative process. She enters her projects seeing each moment as an inclusive and collaborative opportunity to engage in subjects that have social impact. Each story is only one in the greater tapestry of our collective lived experiences, and each individual should have an opportunity to weave in their own narrative. As a result, her works evoke a sense of curiosity and engage critical thinking through dimensional perspective-taking. Aundi’s current project, Living With Fire, exemplifies this approach. Through research and interviews with scientists, fire management specialists, and land stewards, she produced sculptures and experimental videos that discuss themes of how fires burn and what comes after wildfires sweep through the land.

Aundi holds a BA in Visual Arts and Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University and an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. She is currently an MFA candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in Interdisciplinary Art and Writing and is focusing on art as a means to engage communities to respond to social and environmental issues. 

Aundi lives in San Francisco with her husband and collaborator, composer Jacques Desjardins, and her feisty calico cat who happens to be penning a series of short stories.