The focus of my work revolves around the excellence of craft and playing with the conventions of making within ceramics. With the loss of my father, I felt lost in who I am and what I represent. I worked through the pain and refused to be transparent. My current work embodies a level of vulnerability and conveys grief through the medium of ceramics. 

I acted as a caregiver in the latter days of my father's life. In doing so, I became his hands for tasks that he couldn’t do. In using clay, I gained respect for its tactility and the paradoxical nature of the material. The transparency of vulnerability relates to humanity and enables a communal sense of grief. The goal of my artwork is to foster a sense of connection to humanity and explore the potential of clay as a material. Ceramic vessels offer a symbolic representation of the figure and, in extension, the viewer and their sense of self. I aim to push this envelope by creating objects in a state of collapse, fracture, or fragility, in order to demonstrate the clay’s ability to convey emotion.

I primarily fire my work in wood kilns. The process of wood-firing is laborious and energetic. The transfer of energy from human labor to the kiln is permanently transferred to the work. The act of care is a permament mark, continuing my caretaking of the vessels I make.