Artist Statement
My ceramic and mixed media sculpture and installations develop in response to living and working as a guest or foreigner. I use clay as a material for its geologic properties, often making work tied to geographic locale, exploring personal and communal histories. Landscapes, bodily topographies, and formal concepts are ways to contextualize identity and borders, and I pursue questions about boundaries as they relate to perceptions of objectification and otherness. Ceramic materials, industry, and raw sites become points of connection within the communities in which I work.
A room, window, or frame is a projection of ideals. I work in off spaces because I am interested in so-called left-overs, the discarded, the disputed, or the under-recognized that exists outside of defined parameters. My artwork stems from a position of physical abnormality or curiosity of foreign yet global landscapes. Responses to these places and ideas surface in geographical, emotional, or visceral objects and spaces.