I am a multimedia artist who has spent the past nine years working primarily with wheel-thrown ceramic vessels and sculptural forms. Alongside ceramic art, my practice extends into photography and photo-collage, allowing me to explore similar themes through multiple visual languages. I believe there is comfort within melancholy and a quiet romance within heartbreak. This sensibility guides my work, which draws inspiration from natural decay, abandoned belongings, and forgotten architecture.
My ceramic forms are calculated to serve not for function, but as elegant decorative objects. Recently, I have been exploring large-scale, closed-form vessels designed specifically to be nonfunctional. I aim to emphasize presence over utility, using a medium that is known for its practicality. Their surfaces often contrast this refinement, incorporating rugged textures and experimental glaze chemistry that mimc mold, erosion, and other states of deterioration. This is an attempt to challenge the traditional idea of permanence associated with ceramic.
In my photographic work, I document the deterioration of delicate, nostalgic feelings; preserving what inevitably fades. I work both digitally and with analog processes. I will sometimes integrate found imagery, fragmented text, and my own handwriting, which I scan and layer onto the images. I am exploring ways to apply photos onto ceramic vessels and slabs, as I feel both mediums need to work together in order to fully convey the emotional weight of my artistic practice.
My practice invites viewers to linger in discomfort, to confront what is unsettling, and to discover a fragile tenderness within the process of decay and the grief of past memories. My practice makes me vulnerable, and does not offer resolution. My work offers an invitation to find beauty within deterioration and comfort in the passage of time.
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