Artist Statement

I approach clay from the background of a metalsmith, with an eye for adornment, surface embellishment, and connection to the human form.  Whether working in metal or clay, I am interested in exploring repetitive textures that suggest natural, botanical growth with an otherworldly element.  Using textures that evoke plants, fungus, and cells, I isolate individual forms and intensify them, as though they had been cultured and allowed to multiply or mutate.

 

My current work is influenced by the natural world, beautiful, blooming, and diseased.  The daughter of a medical technologist, I spent many Saturdays and school vacation days visiting my mother in a lab surrounded by microscopes and petri dishes, looking at stained bacteria cultures and refrigerators full of growing samples.  I am interested in the beauty of such microscopic pathogens and fungi, of their ability to adapt, metastasize, and overwhelm other systems, creating something new.