My wheel-thrown and hand-built clay creations are experimentations in form and finishes. My deep and abiding interest is to create objects that resonate with people as embodied creatures who are mired in nature through our social environment. I want the objects I create to invoke not only the beauty to be found in nature but also to point to the ways in which we create meaning through the stories we tell, and in our complicated relationship with nature as we have increasingly learned, as a society, to harness its force, yet simultaneously remain at its mercy.

Much like nature itself, results in ceramics can be somewhat unpredictable. I use glaze techniques and alternative firing methods when I can, often through high temperature reduction firing in a gas kiln to get movement and a sense of dynamism on the surface. The objects I create implicate us, beings laden with beliefs and purposes, who inescapably bring our ever-diverse personal histories and culture to bear as we interpret.

As such, my pieces tend to be vessels, that is to say, objects with purpose – seamlessly extending the intention and agency of the user embedded in society – to hold, store, carry, and deliver. But at times the main purpose of a piece is simply to be an object to behold, carrying meaning that can itself be held and culturally transmitted.

Making vessels allows me to combine my twin passions of yoga and ceramics, by exploring the parallel ways that each modality employs the skills of breath, bodily attunement, and the embodiment of form and function. Working with earthen vessels further allows me to explore ways to depict how embodied selfhood is shaped by the inexorable forces of evolutionary change, through interpretation and adaptation, but in a process that cannot be described by language or logic alone. The vessels I create display aesthetic beauty in marrying form with finishes, where beauty comes from tested integrity and enduring transformation.