My practice is rooted in the body- its resilience, its fragility, and its capacity to hold memory. Living with two disc ruptures, followed by two back surgeries, while managing OCD, I’ve become acutely aware of the push and pull between control and surrender, tension and relief. Working with clay mirrors this exchange. It responds to pressure, weight, and time, offering both resistance and support- a relationship I navigate daily in my own body.

Growing up in the Midwest, I was immersed in a culture that valued labor and craft, where making something by hand was an act of purpose. At the same time, I was trained in sports that demanded perfection from the body, where function was measured by precision and output. I’ve come to see function differently- not as efficiency, but as an ongoing negotiation between force and flexibility, with some sense of absurdity.

My sculptures explore how we engage with space and the objects around us, how they shape us as much as we shape them. Ceramics has always been a vessel for both utility and memory, holding the imprint of its maker and user. In an era of detachment and disposability, I seek to create objects that invite pause- forms that hover between function and abstraction, stability and imbalance- reminding us that engagement, like movement, is always an active process of give and take.