Bodies — human and non-human — are vessels that bloom, transform, and ultimately transition. We creatures are mutable, vulnerable, and temporal; our mortality renders us both body and object. How does one grasp the beauty, burden, and fragility of this shared corporeality, one that feels increasingly under threat? My artwork is an attempt to make sense of our entangled existence where nothing lasts and everything transforms.

My creative process is intuitive, empathic, and exploratory. Ceramics are at the core of my practice and I also work on paper and with mixed media. I tenderly imbue my hand-built ceramic sculptures - suggestive of abstracted torsos, imaginary organs, mysterious nests, and sensual flowers - with evocative textures and earthy, fleshy glazes. In a similar manner, I delicately cut and assemble fragments of lush, visceral imagery to create biomorphic paper collages reminiscent of botanical and anatomical illustrations. And my ‘walk sculptures’ function as sculptural diaries, tiny fragile shrines created with seemingly insignificant natural and synthetic materials I gather from my outdoor surroundings.

Every piece I cultivate is purposefully ambiguous. My work is often intimately scaled and delicately detailed, inviting and rewarding close, curious examination. My intention is to create imagery and objects that appear both (and more than) animal and botanical, with qualities that appear to be simultaneously evolving and devolving, strange and familiar, pulsing and static, fertile and barren, vibrant and withering.