ARTIST STATEMENTS
Porcelain & Copper
I am a sculptor working with porcelain, copper electroforming, gemstones, and fossils. My practice unfolds through distinct material explorations, with porcelain and copper serving as separate yet dialoguing bodies of work.
My porcelain sculptures emerge from an exploration of fragility and interiority, where vulnerability becomes both a material state and a lived experience. Through carving and the formation of delicate structures, these works engage questions of the human condition, healing, and consciousness. Inspired by natural and biological processes, the porcelain forms echo cycles of growth, erosion, and renewal, emphasizing vulnerability as a site of energetic exchange and transformation.
In contrast, my copper electroformed work takes the form of jewelry, emphasizing layering, protection, adornment, and the movement of energy through the body. In an acid bath with electricity, I grow copper slowly around gemstones and fossils—materials long associated with grounding, protection, and energetic resonance. Worn on the body, these pieces function as intimate objects of healing and containment, bridging the ephemeral nature of human experience with the deep time embedded in geological matter.
Influenced by psychology, biology, and metaphysics, I approach material transformation as both a physical and conceptual process. Across both bodies of work, my practice reflects the body’s capacity for resilience, adaptation, and renewal—revealed through contrasting states of exposure and reinforcement, vulnerability and protection.
My porcelain sculptures emerge from an exploration of fragility and interiority, where vulnerability becomes both a material state and a lived experience. Through carving and the formation of delicate structures, these works engage questions of the human condition, healing, and consciousness. Inspired by natural and biological processes, the porcelain forms echo cycles of growth, erosion, and renewal, emphasizing vulnerability as a site of energetic exchange and transformation.
In contrast, my copper electroformed work takes the form of jewelry, emphasizing layering, protection, adornment, and the movement of energy through the body. In an acid bath with electricity, I grow copper slowly around gemstones and fossils—materials long associated with grounding, protection, and energetic resonance. Worn on the body, these pieces function as intimate objects of healing and containment, bridging the ephemeral nature of human experience with the deep time embedded in geological matter.
Influenced by psychology, biology, and metaphysics, I approach material transformation as both a physical and conceptual process. Across both bodies of work, my practice reflects the body’s capacity for resilience, adaptation, and renewal—revealed through contrasting states of exposure and reinforcement, vulnerability and protection.
Creative Process with Porcelain
My creative practice explores and pushes the boundaries of clay through carving and refined forms. These elusive and often fragile works emerge from a fascination with the human condition, healing, and consciousness. Inspired by nature and its elements, each piece embodies the ebb and flow between movement and stillness, offering moments of shedding and reflection necessary for transformation and growth.
Carving is a space where I practice letting go of control, listening to the material, and quieting the mind. The clay’s visceral, alluring textures mirror the sense of flow I strive to embrace. Engaging with the material allows me to release control, open my heart, and trust the creative process. Through this work, I explore the symbiosis between the human condition, nature, and the journey of coming home.
Carving is a space where I practice letting go of control, listening to the material, and quieting the mind. The clay’s visceral, alluring textures mirror the sense of flow I strive to embrace. Engaging with the material allows me to release control, open my heart, and trust the creative process. Through this work, I explore the symbiosis between the human condition, nature, and the journey of coming home.
Growing Pains: 2017-2018
Growing Pains is a series of porcelain sculptures that explore personal growth as a complex and vulnerable transformation. Rooted in healing, awareness, and reflection on life’s impermanence, these works evoke the fragility and resilience of the human experience. Reminiscent of bones, the sculptures are embedded with metal to highlight imperfections and reveal fractures, symbolizing the enduring essence of the inner self. Our bodies, minds, and souls undergo profound transitions—wondrous or painful—and each becomes a measure of evolution and change. Just as the past reflects where we have been, these works speak to our ongoing progress as individuals and as a collective.
The use of porcelain and petrified wood deepens this exploration of transformation. Porcelain endures multiple physical and chemical changes through drying and firing, while petrified wood evolves over vast spans of time. Both materials carry the traces of their histories, preserving the memory of their transformation and embodying the passage of change.
The use of porcelain and petrified wood deepens this exploration of transformation. Porcelain endures multiple physical and chemical changes through drying and firing, while petrified wood evolves over vast spans of time. Both materials carry the traces of their histories, preserving the memory of their transformation and embodying the passage of change.
Roots of Consciousness: 2018-2019
As we evolve, both individually and collectively, we inevitably reflect on where we once stood. We can choose growth and change, or remain anchored to the beliefs and truths of the past. Every story and experience shapes how we interpret the world.
Roots of Consciousness reflects my own journey and the many layers of my narrative. This body of work emerged during a period of immersion in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where daily encounters with nature’s textures, abstract forms, and quiet stories naturally informed my creative process. These experiences, combined with my spiritual exploration, have shaped the work’s themes of awareness, acceptance, and transformation.
Each piece carries its own weight—its own consciousness, complexity, and potential for healing. The act of creation is a form of meditation, a surrender to the material, and an invitation to listen rather than control. While this work is rooted in my perspective, it also reflects a shared human consciousness and our collective capacity to heal.
Roots of Consciousness reflects my own journey and the many layers of my narrative. This body of work emerged during a period of immersion in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where daily encounters with nature’s textures, abstract forms, and quiet stories naturally informed my creative process. These experiences, combined with my spiritual exploration, have shaped the work’s themes of awareness, acceptance, and transformation.
Each piece carries its own weight—its own consciousness, complexity, and potential for healing. The act of creation is a form of meditation, a surrender to the material, and an invitation to listen rather than control. While this work is rooted in my perspective, it also reflects a shared human consciousness and our collective capacity to heal.
Ethereal Matter: 2020
Ethereal Matter ’is a body of work rooted in surrender, embracing imperfection, and trusting the creative process. These sculptures reflect my evolving self and personal growth, while simultaneously observing the human condition through material. Working intuitively, the porcelain guided me toward a playful and fluid approach. Carving becomes a space where I release control, listen to the clay, and quiet the mind. Its silky, visceral texture is both alluring and reflective of the sense of flow I strive to cultivate in daily life.
The airy, open forms celebrate their inherent imperfections, embodying a natural fluidity. This sacred dialogue with material has long been a teacher of patience, guiding me to let go, expand my heart, and trust the process—just a little more with each piece.
The airy, open forms celebrate their inherent imperfections, embodying a natural fluidity. This sacred dialogue with material has long been a teacher of patience, guiding me to let go, expand my heart, and trust the process—just a little more with each piece.
Fungi: 2020-2022
Fungi, some of the oldest species on land, are among nature’s greatest healers, exemplifying growth, change, and transformation. Through cycles of decay and renewal, mycelium and its fruiting bodies form an ever-expanding network that supports both the natural world and humanity. When I first discovered mushrooms nearly a decade ago, their expansive and diverse kingdom naturally spoke to my creative path. Their otherworldly textures and colors drew me in, inspiring me to explore their role in healing and how it parallels the roots of my work.
My sculptural practice is grounded in healing, awareness, growth, and reflection on the temporality of life. Nature’s mesmerizing patterns, along with concepts from biology, psychology, and the human condition, continue to inform my exploration of consciousness and evolutionary growth.
The Fungi series is an investigation into the language of this remarkable organism and its capacity to heal both the planet and the human species. Through research, cultivation, and foraging, I have developed a passion and advocacy for mushrooms, seeking to highlight their diversity, healing potential, and captivating presence. Using porcelain as my medium, I translate their form into sculptural bodies that honor their profound connection to life and transformation.
My sculptural practice is grounded in healing, awareness, growth, and reflection on the temporality of life. Nature’s mesmerizing patterns, along with concepts from biology, psychology, and the human condition, continue to inform my exploration of consciousness and evolutionary growth.
The Fungi series is an investigation into the language of this remarkable organism and its capacity to heal both the planet and the human species. Through research, cultivation, and foraging, I have developed a passion and advocacy for mushrooms, seeking to highlight their diversity, healing potential, and captivating presence. Using porcelain as my medium, I translate their form into sculptural bodies that honor their profound connection to life and transformation.
Journey Home: 2022
What might our world look like if, individually and collectively, we truly understood the depths of ourselves—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? An awareness of who we are, where we come from, and where our hearts desire to go. To live authentically, rooted in love. This consciousness requires time, effort, acceptance, and patience—a lifelong journey shaped by a myriad of experiences. By committing to understand and love ourselves first, we open the capacity to more fully care for one another and for the planet.
The human condition is an ongoing cycle of exploration, lessons, play, joy, pain, and heartache—a natural ebb and flow that allows us to witness, embrace, and transform patterns that no longer serve us. Like nature, life is a continuous process of destruction and renewal. From the roots of trees to the mycelium beneath our feet, and through the human experience, we are designed to grow, evolve, and share in the interconnected beauty of creation.
Journey Home is a series created during my time in the Blue Ridge Mountains, embodying this evolution of returning to oneself. These past seven years have been a chapter of deep personal growth, awakening to stillness, and cultivating a life lived from the heart. Through material, form, color, and process, this work reflects the patterns, change, and evolution inherent in both nature and the human condition—a meditation on symbiosis, transformation, and the journey of coming home.
The human condition is an ongoing cycle of exploration, lessons, play, joy, pain, and heartache—a natural ebb and flow that allows us to witness, embrace, and transform patterns that no longer serve us. Like nature, life is a continuous process of destruction and renewal. From the roots of trees to the mycelium beneath our feet, and through the human experience, we are designed to grow, evolve, and share in the interconnected beauty of creation.
Journey Home is a series created during my time in the Blue Ridge Mountains, embodying this evolution of returning to oneself. These past seven years have been a chapter of deep personal growth, awakening to stillness, and cultivating a life lived from the heart. Through material, form, color, and process, this work reflects the patterns, change, and evolution inherent in both nature and the human condition—a meditation on symbiosis, transformation, and the journey of coming home.
Elemental Energy: 2023
My porcelain sculptures and paper works explore the evolving journey of conscious growth and expansion. Elemental Energy brings together pieces from multiple series I’ve developed over the past six years, capturing the shedding, movement, and quiet reflection that shape change and healing. Inspired by nature and its elements, each work—alone and together—flows with the rhythms of my creative practice and the expression of my feminine power.
Liminal: 2014
Pain and suffering are a reoccurring part of the human condition. Life’s adversities and challenges are both a physical and psychological process of infliction and renewal that is temporary, and with time comes healing. In a liminal space between initial pain and restoration, the body, mind, and spirit experience multiple stages of healing.
As human beings, we are constantly changing and evolving within the self and often such changes stem from these difficult transitions. It is through memory that we create self-continuity and how we construct our personal identities. Once finding renewal and stability in this psychological space, this experience does not cease to exist, but remains as a reminder of who we once were and our capabilities to endure.
In this body of work I am examining the transitions that occur within the space of healing and how damage and repair generates contemplation and personal growth. My installation references both the visceral and psychological stages within healing through the use of material, form, color and process. The abstracted forms made of fibers, clay slip, and wax further reference bone, skin, and tissues both fragmented and repaired. The spatial environment evokes the literal and metaphorical notion of restoration through a visual, olfactory and physical experience. By looking up, navigating the space, and engaging in its details, the conditions embody personal reflection of life passages and the hope for transcendence. Through this installation I have set in motion the possibility of catharsis for those who engage my work fully.
As human beings, we are constantly changing and evolving within the self and often such changes stem from these difficult transitions. It is through memory that we create self-continuity and how we construct our personal identities. Once finding renewal and stability in this psychological space, this experience does not cease to exist, but remains as a reminder of who we once were and our capabilities to endure.
In this body of work I am examining the transitions that occur within the space of healing and how damage and repair generates contemplation and personal growth. My installation references both the visceral and psychological stages within healing through the use of material, form, color and process. The abstracted forms made of fibers, clay slip, and wax further reference bone, skin, and tissues both fragmented and repaired. The spatial environment evokes the literal and metaphorical notion of restoration through a visual, olfactory and physical experience. By looking up, navigating the space, and engaging in its details, the conditions embody personal reflection of life passages and the hope for transcendence. Through this installation I have set in motion the possibility of catharsis for those who engage my work fully.