Abstract
This series of work is a response to understanding and navigating uncertainty; both within ourselves and in the world around us. By organizing individual-built ceramic objects I create installations that invite viewers to step into constructed environments where the boundaries between the tangible and the ephemeral blur. Coiling, pinching, and piping in clay become a form of embodied ritual, tactile processes that document and physicalize the fluidity of time. Utilizing meticulous, repetitive processes, accumulation and layering become a vehicle for translating my inner world. I press my thoughts into these structures, letting pinch marks becoming a record of touch. In these forms I employ a visual language of lattices, grids, and screens to create and reimagine functional objects. Using the negative space, color, the organic tilt, and the overt intention of a drip, I further highlight a coexistence of dualities between seen/unseen and interior/exterior. It is this juxtaposition of distorted elements placed within a familiar setting that prompts a reconsidering of what is known.