My work examines the complexity of human emotion and relational experience through the language of form, material, and surface. I am drawn to the fragile spaces where tenderness meets discomfort, where intimacy can feel both sustaining and overwhelming. These internal contradictions often surface quietly, shaping how we protect ourselves, reach toward others, and understand our own emotional boundaries. Rather than representing these conditions directly, I approach them through abstraction, using organic structures and shifting surfaces to suggest the layered and often ambivalent nature of internal experience.

 

Working with clay allows me to translate shifting emotional states into tactile forms, where the process of making becomes a record of transformation. Through hand-building and surface experimentation I allow the material to retain evidence of pressure, fracture, and repair. Using natural and earth-based materials in my surfaces, I create textures and color palettes that evoke processes of weathering and regeneration. These references to the natural world allow emotional states to be expressed through systems of growth, transformation, and decay.