I mine historic and contemporary forms in clay, personal and cultural iconography, and combine them with original or found texts and personal images on the surfaces of the ceramic works. I make my own glazes and decals. 

 

I see the surfaces, and forms, of my ceramic pieces as conversations with the frequently uncomfortable position of being a woman in clay, and in the institution of “Art.” I also explore the ongoing existence of structurally and cross-culturally embedded institution of violence and discrimination against women, and trying to sculpt agency from under the incredible weight of history. 

 
Taking an object/material based, archeological, and phenomenological, approach, I am always working to excavate myself through these ceramic objects as a documentarian of the incomplete present. My work is concerned with the interplay between: permanence and transience; disenfranchisement and empowerment; acceptable and unacceptable; spoken and unspoken; and presence.