I am always thinking about the body’s relationship to its environment. I am close friends with the pond in my yard. I swim in its clear waters, walk alongside as the carp fins bob up and down like sharks, and I pull at the green slime that collects where the water exits. I have a memory of swimming while pregnant last summer and feeling my baby move inside me. My body contained a nurturing pond. I swam while he swam in me. I felt as wild as my surroundings. Water is vibrational matter and bodies are porous. When he was born I felt like we were everything. I can’t tell if it's his stomach or mine that growls. Sometimes we hiccup at the same time. I make ceramic figurative sculptures that try to remain as fluid and as responsive as they are in their wet state. I push these figures further into abstraction through painting to build a world where these figures are entangled in their environments. I believe edges are an illusion and so I carve holes in the modular figures to include the surroundings. With paint, I glaze layers of color to create paradoxically translucent solids. The story is a biological one - about responsive, porous, and spongey sensual wave monsters.

I am always thinking about the body’s relationship to its environment. I am close friends with the pond in my yard. I swim in its clear waters, walk alongside as the carp fins bob up and down like sharks, and I pull at the green slime that collects where the water exits. I have a memory of swimming while pregnant last summer and feeling my baby move inside me. My body contained a nurturing pond. I swam while he swam in me. I felt as wild as my surroundings. Water is vibrational matter and bodies are porous. When he was born I felt like we were everything. I can’t tell if it's his stomach or mine that growls. Sometimes we hiccup at the same time. I make ceramic figurative sculptures that try to remain as fluid and as responsive as they are in their wet state. I push these figures further into abstraction through painting to build a world where these figures are entangled in their environments. I believe edges are an illusion and so I carve holes in the modular figures to include the surroundings. With paint, I glaze layers of color to create paradoxically translucent solids. The story is a biological one - about responsive, porous, and spongey sensual wave monsters.