Abstract
My ceramic objects and mixed media wall installations are quiet representations of moments and images from my past, growing up on a small family farm. Charged by site-dug clay, topographical undulations, and mechanical contraptions, the work acts as historical markers of both the land and the domestic space's aging status. In other words, they are my desperate attempt to preserve a deteriorating rural environment and way of life. Over time and distance, memories become abstracted, and these tangible objects provide me with context to spaces that have disappeared or rotted away. The snapshots that emerge have a familiarity to not only myself, but to the people that understand this livelihood, the trials of coping with its changes, and the preciousness of family ground.