Artist Statement

Humans are in constant flux: who we were, are, and will become continuously shifting and distorting. Though our own experiences often feel isolating, that state of distortion and struggle is a deeply shared experience. Within my ceramic sculpture, I explore common behavioral dualities, uncertainty, and belief structures throughout history as a point of personal connection. By using human and animal figures, I’m tapping into the tradition of making objects in our likeness for the immediacy of information: I see myself in this therefore I can relate. Realism is a platform to ask complex questions to a broader audience. I use modular design and engineering along with post-firing assembly to achieve my life-size scale pieces.

I often refer to my religious upbringing and academic studies of religion within my work. As a child, I deeply believed in a god that I later felt abandoned by, resulting in a personal apostasy. Leaving behind religion left an absence in my sense of purpose and spirituality. I have since become fascinated in the historical and societal role of belief structures and their influences on myth making, literature, and everyday life superstitions. Within each piece, I use a combination of photography motion capturing techniques and photoshop, creating an original composition based on a historical reference that I then can sculpt from. These modalities allow me to explore those fluctuating human moments by changing the aperture of reference points. Through these processes, I’ve been able to visually unite old world gods with modern technologies.