I have a sculpture based artistic practice with ceramics as my primary medium. As an artist, my work is informed by my many identities, conceptual research, and material exploration. I consider ceramics practically and poetically, continually learning its role in historical and contemporary traditions and the material properties that make it indispensable to human history. I create art because it's a unique practice that can harmonize many forms of knowledge, literacies, and ways of being in order to balance understandings that allow one to see the world more wholly and empathetically.

Hope and spirituality are linked in their need to believe in something beyond the materialist reality of the present moment. Under the emerging linked threats of climate change, violence, and economic precarity, balancing hope and fear can be cumbersome. My current work explores the role of sports, labor, and evangelicalism in leveraging both hope and fear to perpetuate specific worldviews that maintain their capital and political power. In contrast, I explore the equal power of these institutions in creating unique spaces of communion, brotherhood, and personal expression by assembling people of similar convictions or who participate in shared rituals. In this effort, my art aspires to embody the human need for spiritual connection while also documenting how that attention continues to be co opted.