I'm still finding ways to get mud on my hands.
I love making beautifully detailed items for everyday use with unexpected and playful touches. My pieces are meant to create small moments of coziness and happiness- a quiet moment with hot tea, baking a pie from scratch, or displaying a single bright flower on the wall.
Pottery is a mindful practice. Working with clay is a meditation on non-attachment, as things often go awry between forming the piece and the final kiln firing. My pieces explore the boundary between the ethereal and the lasting. Through clay, I preserve delicate heirloom lace patterns and ephemeral flowers and botanicals in a sturdy medium. Yet, pottery itself is breakable. This paradox is fascinating to me and I often find myself finding parallels to life and the pottery process.
As a handbuilder, I don’t use the pottery wheel. Each piece has been uniquely formed together from multiple small pieces of clay with gloriously muddy hands. Each piece will be slightly unique, with handmade, organic texture and form that is signature for this method of pottery and why I love this style of playing with clay.
Pottery is a mindful practice. Working with clay is a meditation on non-attachment, as things often go awry between forming the piece and the final kiln firing. My pieces explore the boundary between the ethereal and the lasting. Through clay, I preserve delicate heirloom lace patterns and ephemeral flowers and botanicals in a sturdy medium. Yet, pottery itself is breakable. This paradox is fascinating to me and I often find myself finding parallels to life and the pottery process.
As a handbuilder, I don’t use the pottery wheel. Each piece has been uniquely formed together from multiple small pieces of clay with gloriously muddy hands. Each piece will be slightly unique, with handmade, organic texture and form that is signature for this method of pottery and why I love this style of playing with clay.