Artist Statement

Pattern is our visual language, a way to navigate a complex world. We naturally seek connections between objects, people, or even fleeting moments, to make sense our surroundings. Often, these patterns are so subtle they go unnoticed, yet we feel their continuity, like an unbroken thread just beneath the surface. Revealing this connective tissue between form and its surroundings fuels my practice.

My ceramic sculptures hold space while remaining porous and open. The interplay with space is as essential to completing the form as patterns are to illuminating shape. This symbiotic connection is inherent in all relationships.

Drawing inspiration from a landscape rich with structures from architecture to textile construction, I use modularity to create a unified whole.  Pattern is not mimicked but abstracted, shifting from its original source.  Through repetition, integral patterns emerge from the building process itself, nothing is superfluous or extraneous.

Weaving form with such a malleable material as clay is central to my art.  It’s responsive and transformative, recording my gestures and driving an intuitive creative process. Clay guides a dance between hand and head, often moderating the form to its whim. It has a weighty permanence, and yet, carries a sense of fragility and porousness. I embrace this tension, exploring these contradictions and pushing the material to its limits, always searching for the precious edge to rest before collapse.  My hope is the work invites the viewer to pause in that space and linger with curiosity. It’s that pursuit that propels and reminds me that working with clay is a constant practice of letting go in order to be revealed.