My ceramics are driven by my interest in how our built environments shape our relationships with nature, ourselves, and our communities. I explore the connections and isolations present in these relationships through my art.
I am drawn to creating functional ceramics for the parallels between clay's stages and our land use planning processes. While working with malleable wet clay, I reflect on the range of processes and approaches we choose to structure our built environments, and I consider the pace and effects of the varied processes I use, slab, coil, and the wheel, while building. Through glaze applications featuring negative space, I map tactile experiences of the boundaries revealed by our everyday patterns of movement within our built environments and the communities they shape. I embrace vitrification as it imbues both intentional and unforeseen interactions into my pieces, and through creating functional pieces that can be incorporated into everyday rituals, I welcome others to reflect on the intended and unintended shapes of their own movements through their built environment.
I work with a range of stoneware and porcelain claybodies and fire my work in an oxidation environment to cone 6-8 (~2200°F/1200°C to ~2300°F/1260°C) with custom glazes to create durable, food-safe, and vitrified pieces while limiting my studio's dependence on fossil fuels and impact on air quality.