I work primarily with clay and film photography, but my creative expression is deeply rooted in movement. After many years as a dancer, I am fascinated with the ways bodies move through space. I am drawn to how we fit into, digress, transform the natural world around us, as well as how pottery holds movement and mirrors the body. I am captivated by creating and craft traditions, always exploring new mediums and trying to learn how to make the things that surround me in the everyday. I think often about where our everyday objects come from: who made them, what materials they are made from, and the memories they hold. Learning how to make the objects that surround me empowers me, grounds me, and connects me to the hands and knowledge of those who have crafted before me. I want to live among objects that I have invested my time, attention, and love into, because doing so makes the everyday feel more meaningful and invites me to notice its inherent awe. 

Clay draws me in for its freedom and constraints of movement, the ease with which it pulls me into a flow state, and because, compared to other mediums, clay is so clearly of the earth. When I throw and fire pots, I feel like I am participating in an age-old collaboration between humans, clay, and fire. I am especially drawn to atmospheric and wood firings because they make this collaboration visible. Soda, wood ash, flame, and atmosphere become part of the process, and much of the surface treatment remains outside the potter’s control. I love this unpredictability—a reminder that making is about listening, responding, and allowing the earth to participate.

I want my work to create connection: between body and earth, object and maker, person and place. Sometimes this means using film to capture nude figures making shapes in the desert, other times it means leaving small pots containing poems around town for someone to find when they need them, or least expect them. In a world of mass-produced, disposable objects not made to last, I find meaning and power in bringing attention to the time, care, and love invested in handmade objects, and to the ways they connect us across time and place. I want to pay attention to the ways we are already entangled with the world around us and make work that invites others to do the same.