The body sits beside the vessel, art sits beside craft, beauty sits beside the grotesque, my work sits between. The sculptures’ ambiguous shapes create a constant re-examining, and allow one to become familiar with ideas of “the other”. Obsessive repetition creates these forms. Repetition breaks with careful moments that emanate soft sensuality. The forms created are creature-like and are symbols of movement and life.

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I implement abstracted characteristics of the human body, plants, bacteria, and geological systems. Through form, scale, surface, and context I create voluptuous pieces that invite physical touch, evoking analogy to the human body and other organic forms. I am interested in creating ambiguous bodies which are simultaneously familiar yet different.

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 The atmospheric environment of the wood fire highlights and enhances characteristics of beauty and context within the form. The unpredictability of an atmospheric firing creates a soft and luscious tactility that compliments the sensual beauty of each piece I create. The unifying thread running through my work is: to be engaged with form and space through movement.