My practice investigates how we give form to experiences we cannot yet fully understand. Working primarily in ceramic sculpture, alongside drawing and writing, I explore how making objects and developing ritual relationships with them can help us live with experiences that are difficult to integrate.

I am drawn to how people continue living through loss, migration, love, and personal change. My background in biology and psychology informs my attention to the body and to the ways we perceive, remember, and construct meaning. These concerns lead me to ask what an object can hold of an experience, and how our relationship with it might change over time.

Through hybrid figures and symbolic objects, I bring the familiar into contact with the strange. Drawing on mythology, memory, and lived experience, I seek to evoke associations, sensations, and emotions that may emerge before conscious explanation. I am interested in how a form can feel significant before we know why.

This inquiry extends into my research into clay bodies, glaze formulation, and firing processes. Clay records touch and pressure, while firing irreversibly alters its structure and surface. These material changes bring transformation into the making of each sculpture.

I approach my sculptures as presences with which a relationship can develop. Their meanings remain open to associations beyond the experiences that first prompted them. Through making and encounters with these objects, I explore how we might live alongside what continues to resist understanding.