artist statement:

The spaces we inhabit between love and resentment, closeness and distance, safety and fear are never fixed: they are constantly shifting. What is soft is never just gentle, what is familiar is never entirely safe. Birthdays are scary. My work exists in these quiet moments where truths reveal themselves.

My practice moves through these tensions, tracing the edges where tenderness meets discomfort and where sweetness veils something more complicated. Through ceramic sculpture, found-object installation, printmaking, and fiber art, I transform the familiar into the unfamiliar, inviting dialogue around the subtle oscillations between the mundane and the uncanny. Working across materials that embody both fragility and endurance, my work examines how memory, materiality, and emotion intersect to tell stories of place, trauma, and transformation.

I’m drawn to opposites not for their contrast, but for their permeability. Hard and soft, durable and delicate, joyful and painful—each relies on the other to exist. The combination of fabric, fiber, and clay allows me to explore this balance materially: how something can be both protective and vulnerable, both comforting and unsettling.

Sewing, a practice passed down from my mother, grounds this work in care, repetition, and inheritance. The act of stitching becomes both repair and reimagining, a way to bind together fragments of memory and emotion. Similarly, I often incorporate found and secondhand materials for the traces of history they carry, using them as vessels to hold what might otherwise remain unseen.

By merging the whimsical with the profound, I aim to create spaces where vulnerability feels both possible and shared. The work softens sharpness, turning discomfort into something tender. In doing so, it reflects the complexity of being human: that strength and sensitivity are not opposites, but deeply intertwined.