I'm all about clay. One of my very first memories is playing on a mini pottery wheel in preschool, absolutely loving the texture of the clay as it slipped through my hands, and then promptly squashing what I’d made back into an unrecognizable blob, only to delightfully start all over again.

My childhood delight didn’t disappear when I returned to pottery in my early 20s while living in San Francisco. The satisfyingly squishy and moldable nature of clay’s materiality hadn’t lost its appeal, and before I knew it, I was spending all my free time playing around with clay.  

Whenever I’m thinking about new projects, I try to imagine that the forms I’m creating are making a vibrant inquiry into what it means to grow and change, yet still somehow stay yourself.

Experimenting is the name of the game when it comes to creating a new pathway in my practice and exploring ideas of somehow staying the same through change, using glaze materials.

Pictured here is a series of test tiles showing how different weights and positioning of a “gloop” glaze affect the dripability. Another set shows how varying amounts of silicon carbide affect the puffability of a foaming glaze.

In ceramics, there is a certain unpredictability about what happens in the kiln. When I’m creating new forms, this is what I look forward to the most. I’m excited to see how the gloop, puff, and crawling glazes react to the dimensions of the sculptures.