The pieces I create are sculptural objects that emerge through an intuitive and emotional process. I celebrate excess of color, instability, and physical evidence of touch. Because of this, I am guided only by a sense of scale, a chosen color palette, and an awareness that emotion or memory can be evoked through making. Beginning with a hand-built, idealized form, I then carve, tear, and scar the clay, pressing rocks, sticks, and other found natural material into its surface. These textures and impressions serve as a rigid shell that takes on an unfamiliar and often unattractive quality. I then slice or dissect these forms to alter them further. I use this deformed object as a canvas, onto which I drip and smear beaded, crawling, and foamy, lava-like colors onto it.

For me, making my work is not only a process, but a translation. The studio becomes a space where emotion can be externalized and reconstructed through physical engagement. As a result, the work tends to feel both ugly and wrong, having been conceived as something alien and otherworldly. This disconnect feels true to the internal experience I am trying to express. Rather than being representations of nature, the work utilizes its processes and behaviors to express emotional turmoil, angst, and dysfunction.