I make utilitarian pottery that draws from a personal study of historical and contemporary material culture. I aim to establish scenarios of beauty, mystery, nostalgia, and utility within my work.

I experience texture, color, and pattern continuously through daily routines - when I get dressed in the morning or when I cook. By moving through the world with a curious eye, I continue to learn about the formal relationships between color, objects, and space. I utilize shapes: cylinder, triangle, circle, etc. and patterns: plaid, lattice, etc. that are identifiable and universal. The ubiquity of these ‘images’ through history empowers them with rich subversive potential. These forms and patterns are able to disappear within one’s daily existence, only to reappear when activated by a moment of consciousness – a flower, a contrasting colored liquid, etc.

Through display, I reference the studio as a laboratory and present my work as a hypothesis.