BFA, Studio Art
Dual Discipline Focus
Primary Focus: Ceramics
Secondary Focus: Sculpture
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Artist Statement
Vessels In Flux
My practice revolves around the ceramic vessel—each form capturing a moment of balance between precision and play. The spiral of the wheel leaves a signature in clay that rises, curves, and sometimes falters under my hands.
These pieces are born from experimental firings—wood-fueled and soda-glazed atmospheres that mark surfaces with blistered textures and flashing tones. They invite touch through undulating walls and delicate, rippling edges that preserve the presence of the hand. When grouped together, they form a visual rhythm—each with its own personality, yet together a community in conversation. They sit with vulnerability, narrating stories of risk, process, and adaptation.
While my fingers shaped these forms—deliberately, attentively—their lives truly unfold in the hands of others. Vessels foster intimacy. They ask users to hold, to adjust their grip, to support at points of balance, to sense the temperature and weight of contents through thin ceramic walls. The user becomes a collaborator, learning the intricacies of each piece through repeated handling, discovering its particular character through every use.
Each pot I form hosts the memory of those that came before it. My forms have grown more precise, my surfaces more considered, but I still return to the bounce, the whimsy, the wobble, and the play that comes with one’s first sensorial experiences with clay. These vessels exist in celebration. They teeter between structure and spontaneity, refinement and collapse. Together, they chart an evolving dialogue between maker, material, and the hands that will ultimately hold them.
