My work begins with the quiet language of everyday objects. I collect the textures, marks, and patterns carried by domestic tools — many passed down from my grandmothers — and use them to impress a history of touch into the soft clay. These humble forms and artifacts of daily life become the starting point for ceramic sculptures that explore memory, nature, and the subtle forces that shape us.

Although my pieces often evoke organic structures — tide pools, seed pods, eroded landscapes, or microscopic life — they are not meant to represent any single thing. Instead, I build abstract forms that invite viewers to recognize their own meanings within them. The surfaces are hand-carved, burnished, sanded, stained, and fired multiple times, allowing the clay to develop a tactile richness that rewards close looking. Oxides, slips, and natural materials reveal patterned layers, much like the growth rings of a tree or the shifting textures of earth.

I am drawn to the meditative intimacy of hand building. Each piece develops slowly, accumulating marks and revisions that mirror the rhythms of domestic labor and the passage of time. Through this process, I aim to create objects that feel both familiar and mysterious — rooted in the material world yet open to interpretation.

My ceramics are, at their core, an invitation: to pause, to notice the quiet details, and to reconnect with the textures of memory and the natural world.