My work has always existed even before they have been created, I am merely the bridge between them and the conscious world. They emerge from my human experience. They carry evidence of the body’s movement through hesitation, repetition, pressure, and release. I am drawn to the honesty in that. All of my work exists within an ongoing series called [Relics]. A surface is a relic to the fleeting moments in time. My work captures the tacit observations and experiences we have in our daily lives. I think of each piece, whether a ceramic vessel or a painting, as a relic of human experience. They are my way of processing human existence and the poetry of my being. I transform moments of my life and environment into objects and surfaces that carry their weight.  

Clay is central to my practice because it resists control. It must be persuaded, compressed, and fired, and each stage carries risk. Clay remembers every touch and records hesitation as clearly as certainty. Because of this I think of it less as a passive material and more as an active collaborator. Paint works differently but holds a similar immediacy. Gesture builds across the surface and forms a language of movement and color that communicates emotion without relying on narrative. The jar has become my recurring sculptural form. Across cultures jars have preserved what sustains life as well as what remains after it. They are both practical and ceremonial. The vessels I build function less as containers and more as repositories for emotional experience such as memory, fear, longing, and resilience. Many begin with a simple structure and slowly grow through the addition of hundreds of small hand-built elements. Over time, the surface becomes dense and protective. Each piece records the accumulation of time, labor, and attention. My paintings extend these ideas in another direction. Through abstraction, I transcribe the tenderness, beauty, and art embedded in life's transcendence into a medium that honors what they truly are: nuanced, messy, and convoluted. My work expresses the rawness of these moments without judgement. Underlying my practice is a belief in slow and physical making. Through all my mediums I am trying to leave behind traces of empathy and human touch. The works in [Relics] heed the undercurrents of experience while also yielding the space to get lost in color and form allowing the space for quiet reflection.