Every art medium holds its own place in my life, but my true passion without a doubt lies in ceramics. Being able to create not only a beautiful and functional piece of art, but an object I can insert into my daily life, is deeply satisfying.
It’s more than satisfying actually, clay is where I truly feel my expression run free and nothing has replaced that. With my art, I hope to communicate this deep relationship with ceramics and art as a whole. Ceramics is a beautiful ritual of creation; taking a material from the earth and working with that is an extraordinary human experience. I also intend to explore my own identity through making works about nostalgia, personal memories, and my experiences as a Black woman in the Pacific Northwest.
A large theme I feel also carries throughout my work is one that was pointed out to me: time. Specifically, my relationship with death and the overall passage of time are closely intertwined with my art, as the loss of my mother at 15 altered my worldview completely. While I think harsh emotions and personal subjects have always been close to my art, time or metaphors surrounding it have seemed to link its way into my pieces in one way or another.
Ultimately, art and the act of creating is an innate part of who I am. Gaining the ability to express this through my art and also through teaching my knowledge of art is my true purpose as an artist at this moment.
