My current work is to create wheel-thrown ceramic dishware for everyday use. This includes cups, bowls, plates, mugs, planters, and any other custom request pieces. Function, unique qualities of form, and surface texture are important to me. With these aspects in mind, I create one-of-a-kind and comfortable pieces for the home, most of which are inspired by natural forms and color palettes.

 

     Another type of functional ware that I create are sets of porcelain, slip-cast dishware. They have a minimalist aesthetic and are influenced by flowers or natural forms. Each place setting has several pieces that are based off the shapes of different layers of flower petals that nestle inside of one another. When viewed from above, the organic-shaped rims resemble whole flowers, and the table as a stylized garden.

     

    My sculptural work reflects issues of the hybridization of fruits, vegetables, and other plant forms. Some of the forms are meant to be realistic representations of the produce, but they become grotesque with the addition of human body parts to comment on the possibilities of the biotechnology of agriculture gone wrong. Other pieces are representations of hybrid flowers which combine aspects from different plant life to create large-scale, brightly colored mutant forms. I want viewers to reflect on how they interact with their environment as well as to be a celebration of the beauty of the natural world.