Artist Statement

I’ve always been interested in the marks we humans make. Whether that is a wall covered in playbills, signs and graffiti or the deep craters, holes and tunnels produced by mining. These human marks can be both beautiful and ugly. My forms are stamped, slashed, dented, then layered with color and glass. I’ve always been captivated by ceramic objects that demonstrate the many opportunities clay gives the maker to change and alter forms and surfaces. Whether that is the malleability of soft clay, a carvable, leather-hard surface or the fully-dry pot. There are so many points along the way for processes and formal choices.

Like abstract paintings ceramic objects can have deep, layered surfaces, even deeper than paintings really, because of their three-dimensionality. I want viewers to see my forms as opportunities to investigate surface and process. I hope my vessels will bring out the archeologist in the viewer and encourage them to uncover processes, actions and fossilized moments. I hope they interrogate their own relationship to mark-making, form and beauty.