Artist Statement

I make sculptures that confront personal transitions, reminisce vulnerable layers, and challenge structure. Constantly striving to maintain a balance in change and patience among apprehension, I use the figure as a vessel to visually state control contradicted by precariousness. Slight bends or subtle gestures act as small ways to express a timid strength. I create these structures embodying negative space to question emptiness and fulfillment simultaneously… a fulfillment of balance and order, but also an emptiness of ironic volume.

Building sculptures with multiple clay parts to create volume, form, and balance I layer basic foundation principles of repetitive textures. I use the raw surface of clay obsessively to preserve stability and attention to the importance of structure in my life. As I create everyday, thoughts constantly pursue me on regulation of self, structure among weakness, and thickness between layers. My process of making has become a set of conceptual principles that mirror basic techniques of building with clay.