Articulating my inner thoughts and curiosities has always been a hands-on experience.  Driven by child-like fascination, my intent with clay has been to learn more about the material itself and use it to articulate the things of my imagination.

The objects that I make expand upon what it means to make “functional” ceramics.  I want to take clay off the table and into unexpected areas of people’s everyday lives, dancing with concepts of absurdity and practicality.  Re-translating mundane everyday objects successfully through clay is a humorous and challenging push-and-shove to the boundaries of functional ceramics.  Influenced by Tupperware, metal kitchen equipment, and retro plastic electronics, the refined shapes and saturated monochromatic color of the work suggests that these familiar forms exist in a cartoon-like environment.  I learn from the material landscape around me, which, in turn, informs how I make things.  The objects I create give others a glimpse inside my own world - a world that is an accumulation of material intelligence, opinion of beauty, and curiosity.