I create small-batch functional vessels to explore how our built environments shape our relationships with nature, ourselves, and our communities. While working with malleable wet clay, I reflect on the infinite ways we can build an equitable, sustainable future that facilitates abundance, accessibility, and interconnectedness. I build with a variety of processes, slab, coil, and the wheel, to explore the intentions, pacing, and results of processes we use to shape our built environments. 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 environments and communities.
Technical details
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 urban air quality.