Description

My work is an offering of healing and wholeness generated from my personal exploration of the struggles and opportunities of my mixed-race and other hybrid identities. In my work, I conjure non-representational worlds, portraits, and stories as spells to support personal transformation.   I create vessels to manifest wishes, grieve the death of old parts, inspire acceptance, access embodied wisdom, and nourish the heart. Each vessel or series offers an invitation for use, from filling with water and speaking in prayers, to blowing out secrets from tiny holes in the form. These vessels bring speculative ancestral and futuristic practices into the present and act as containers to hold us emotionally and spiritually. They function in liminal spaces and embody a process of change. Each piece expands notions of ‘functional ware’ by advocating for our needs beyond the physical.   My objects explore integrating opposites -- ordered and chaotic, organic and geometric, bold and delicate, interior and exterior, simple and complex, dark and light, masculine and feminine, ancient and new, known and unknown. While these objects occupy a middle space that is all their own, they also wrestle with the fragmentation of their many parts. In form, my wheel-thrown and hand-altered objects are marked as hybrid with varied appendages and contrasting surface decoration. My practice sits at the intersection of art, craft, and collective healing.