On Borrowing MFA Thesis Exhibition coming soon to the Site Museum of Art in Southbend IN.
Vascular Coral from the series, On Borrowing. 2020
24”x24” Self-glazing slip, pure potential (raw) porcelain, gold leaf, and lava rock
Everything is connected and survival is en masse. Hope lives not in isolation but through the potential of collaborative movement. My ceramic practice acts as a filter for understanding cycles of grief and regrowth, cellular and energetic.
As we attempt to understand the repercussions of the anthropocene, we merely fuss over them in human terms, ultimately selfish in intent. My hope is to grow empathy for human and nonhuman living organisms by paralleling our bilateral symmetries, stimulating the potential in cooperative existence.
La petite mort. 2021
Not all consumption is of the flesh. 2020
Porcelain. and maison stain 6-13” each
Exhaustive extraction and compulsive productivity are killing us.
We need time to breath
We need space to breath
Our breath used to tangle in the air which floated freely and now we hold our chests tight with untrustworthy air
Exhale.
But not toward anyone
I miss your lingering breath, soft and hot.
All I feel now are the vibrations of my muffled words which can’t pass the mask.
What was that?
Everything is hard now, un reachable and cold, growing colder. Dying.
Well now i remember being here before. The cold dark space with sharp edges, unfriendly to touch.
We remember because we survive. Those holes left in our hearts are room for something new. So let us wander into field for seeds, this time planting perennials.
Pollinator pod. 36” x 36” x 36” Video coming soon!
Pollinator kit. 2020
Stoneware, gold leaf, milkweed seeds
Glimmers of Hope- a series of intimate items for savoring. 1” each
(Left to right)
Stoneware, a nod to clay and collaborative touch
One Zone 7 Pollinator Mix, encapsulated by beeswax
Pressed cheeks, rotten with crater glaze, gold leaf and milkweed tuft
Lava rock, as a remembrance for that which is destroyed holding vast potential and nutrient.
Unfired porcelain coated in gold leaf, a celebration of that which
Between Us. 2020
Porcelain, maison stain, gold luster. 4-8” each
Between Us
I’ve been reading Gyn/ecology, written by Mary Daly
These Cone 10 Porcelain, raw dusted, lusterous sculptures similarly parallel bilateral symmetry of flora, skeletal fauna and falopian systems as bodies which are perpetually controlled. (potentially part of the meat library) though they seem to depart into conversations of intersectional environmentalism and feminine power.
Temporal Stability. 2019
Porcelain 12”x 11”x 3”
Exhibited during the 2020 NCECA Student Exhibition
No Honest Way Out. 2020
24”x24” Porcelain
Water On Mondays. 2019
Ready made umbrella, thyme, and the collected voice of song birds. Immersive installation- comes with mist bottle and magnifying glass
Exhibited at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. 2019
Water On Mondays, Interactive installation.
Sound on
Water On Mondays. 2019
Wooden stairs and moss. Interactive installation- comes with water pitcher and seeds.
Immersive Installation Detail of NA an interactive sight specific installation at Craft House Gallery in Grand Rapids, built during residency. 2016
Mixed Media, salt, clay, moss
She~ll. 2018
Porcelain shells, terra sigillatta and mustard seeds. Immersive installation on bodily recombinance and collective consciousness.