STATEMENT

Through my forms, I seek to translate into a tangible form the emotional senses of curiosity, sincerity, utility, and generosity. Clay has the ability to be both tactile yet intelligent. I work to create and invite contemplative moments, where both experiences of the physical hand and intellectual mind can coexist.

Pinch clay and the muscles and tendons of your hand tighten
while your thumb finds the angle honed by evolutionary millennia.
Bones, joints, and the ridges of your fingertips engage - gripping and compressing.
The clay gives to your pressure yet reciprocates.
Squeeze more and clay surges around your fingers
with fluidity that its solid appearance had concealed.
Release and it is shockingly separate, static.
Pinched clay is a remarkably clear and straightforward trace of touch,
from maker to user my moment of touch can be experienced by others tomorrow
or in thousands of years.

Art is most interesting to me when it is about asking questions and questioning the questions.
It can feel deceptively satisfying to have answers when we live in a culture that prizes them so highly. Yet I strive to learn through working and will be unsatisfied if there is a day these actions and objects cease to pose questions.