I create forms based on shapes that I feel embody the complex emotions and experiences of living—relationships, bonds, unavoidable guilt and shame, and the need for protection. I aim to tangibly represent natural feelings of longing and desire, combined with swift and shameless pursuit of being. I think about energy and how it manifests in our bodies, in ways strikingly similar to how it moves through clay.

My goal is to create objects that feel alive, heavy, weighty, and grounded to the earth. Creating effeminate objects and vessels that encompass guilt, glory, and pressure of the maternal beauty of being. I rethink the traditional craft notions of ceramic as a clean, smooth, uncompromised vessel made to support the hand of a person. These emblematic objects represent the magically elemental persona of clay as mirroring the traditional ideas and vigilance of care. The passing of majesty and wisdom from robust, hoarded experience of maternal figures on the grandeur and gruesome complexities of existing as a woman drive my creative practice. My work is guided by motifs of fragility, care, and necessary persistence. As well as the idea of a visceral reaction—the deeply ingrained instincts that drive us to act out of habit and passion. How do we unapologetically take up space? What does that look like? What do our deepest and harshest feelings look like inside of us, and when do they surface? I explore the matriarchal existence in contexts of familial, romantic, and platonic bonds and its ineluctable impact as a universal variable to all beings.