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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 rockEverything is connected and survival is en masse. Hope lives not in isolation but through the potential of collab…

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

La petite mort. 2021

 
Not all consumption is of the flesh. 2020Porcelain. and maison stain 6-13” eachExhaustive extraction and compulsive productivity are killing us.We need time to breathWe need space to breathOur breath used to tangle in the air which floated freely an…

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. 2020Stoneware, gold leaf, milkweed seeds

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 touchOne Zone 7 Pollinator Mix, encapsulated by beeswaxPressed cheeks, rotten with crater glaze, gold leaf and milkweed tuftL…

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. 2020Porcelain, maison stain, gold luster. 4-8” eachBetween UsI’ve been reading Gyn/ecology, written by Mary Daly These Cone 10 Porcelain, raw dusted, lusterous sculptures similarly parallel bilateral symmetry of flora, skeletal faun…

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. 2019Porcelain 12”x 11”x 3”Exhibited during the 2020 NCECA Student Exhibition

Temporal Stability. 2019

Porcelain 12”x 11”x 3”

Exhibited during the 2020 NCECA Student Exhibition

 
No Honest Way Out. 202024”x24” Porcelain

No Honest Way Out. 2020

24”x24” Porcelain

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Water On Mondays. 2019Ready made umbrella, thyme, and the collected voice of song birds. Immersive  installation- comes with mist bottle and magnifying glassExhibited at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. 2019

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

 
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Water On Mondays, Interactive installation.

Sound on

 
Water On Mondays. 2019Wooden stairs and moss. Interactive installation- comes with water pitcher and seeds.

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.