STATEMENT

My current work investigates the emotional weight of everyday ceramic objects - urns, figurines, collectibles - and what is revealed when they are removed from their original contexts. I began this exploration by breaking found objects and attaching their fragments to raw clay forms. This process required technical problem-solving and deepened my interest in fragmentation, memory, and grief.

These ideas evolved while foraging estate sales, where I felt the tension between collecting familial objects and the simultaneous need to let them go. I am especially interested in how objects act as surrogates for people and events from which we become separated by distance, death, and time. Each carries its own emotional residue, through the imagery it depicts, how it was left behind, or who left it. Every object is intentionally broken, released from its prior context, and given a second life.

Recent works explore how identity and memory are carried, altered, and eroded by external forces. Increasingly, my practice invites public participation, allowing others to contribute to large-scale sculptures and installations that extend these questions beyond the personal.