Artist Statement

In my artwork I seek adventure, experimentation, and exploration. 

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Much like the renaissance man that is my father; I have always felt motivated to try every creative outlet possible. I have worked my way through many mediums shifting through challenge and exploring what works best for me. 

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My personal love for art stems out of my love for ceramics, a class I hated when I joined in my freshman year of high school. Ceramics has challenged me more than anything; from structural integrity to kiln explosions, I've felt it all. Ceramics taught me how to fail over and over again, and from that how to find success. How to push boundaries and try things I am not always sure are even possible.

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Inspired by artists Tina Yu, Beth Cavener Stitcher, and Roberto Lugo, I found myself through my ceramics art. I wrapped my identity into every work I created, I built community through my ability to share my struggles and my moments of gratitude and fulfillment that come from them. 

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My identity is a big part of my work, as I have grown so have my ideas, I have created a story book of my trials and tribulations, leaving behind a trail of artwork with it. In my early years my work focused primarily on mental health. I explored my desire to be perfect, my anxiety surrounding it. I explored depression, trauma, and how kindness changed my life. During Covid my personal artwork came to a halt as I threw myself into three or four art studios a semester at OSU. I found myself exploring new ideas as I reached into my adult life. Love, Morality, Femininity, Anguish, and most importantly Gratitude; all of which flourished in my adult life. In 2022 I readdressed my previous disdain for the pottery wheel and using ideas I generated about style in my high school years I watched a single artwork from 2018 spawn into a series of work that investigated the beginning of my 20s. I utilize a sketchbook like surface, leaving behind every space my hands have been, brush strokes, metaphorical imagery, poetry, and sgrafitto made marks. My exploration has built pathways to community connections, brand partnerships, and self exploration. 

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As I have reached adulthood I find myself looking back with kindness and gratitude, something I did not carry in my teenage years. My work continues to unpack the anguish around societal pressure on women, gives gratitude to my mother and the women before her. Most importantly my work has provided me with the space to come to terms with myself, to let go of the need to fit into a box, and find true happiness and freedom.