DEPOSIT UNKNOWN

My work is driven through an interest in pattern and color. I create functional and sculptural ceramics. I pursue maximalism in aims of responding to the white-washing minimalism of gentrification aesthetics. I reference Folk Art, Post-Modernist design and the Pattern and Decoration Movement. I embrace the wavering nature of my hand-pinched surfaces as a loosening of the tight patterns that I impose on the surface with glaze. My work stands as a representation of queerness and challenges binary structures. I work to understand and contort those structures as a way of exploring the tension which upholds polarities. I employ repetition in pattern motifs, which holds a space for processing predisposed conditioning. The grid shows up in countless iterations of my work. Perhaps the most universal of all patterns, as in a chess board or tile floor, there are two opposite forces existing on the same networked surface, portraying the concept of duality and reflection. These objects portray the imaginative stance that is required to reach a life beyond the boundaries of binary understanding.