Artist Statement

Clay remembers each gesture. Each squeeze. Each hesitation. Every scream smothered into form. 

My work confronts the surrealism of modern living. The figures hold the pressure of being shaped by a world that disciplines bodies. The work regards being handled. Trained. Beautified. Sacrificed. Smiled at. Silenced. I reach for the absurd, the theatrical, the tender. A girl holding a bomb pop. A woman with a bullhorn on top of her lineage. These are not punchlines—they’re survival strategies. 

 Both rebellion and ritual, my ceramics practice cracks open the domestic realm and transforms dolls, clocks, keepsakes into sites of rupture. I shift scale and fragment bodies to ask: Who is allowed to take up space? Who is allowed to fall apart?

This work speaks in contradictions—fragile yet loud, playful yet furious. I impose my will on the clay bodies while critiquing the systems that impose their will on my own. In their early state the forms are malleable, yet forced into rigid poses through pressure. Once dried they become fragile, until fired, going through stages of vulnerability and strength just like us. Together we critique systems of control: militarization, gender roles, propaganda, the policing of bodily autonomy. But we also celebrate resistance: making, laughing, remembering, storytelling.

Each sculpture is a fragment of that resistance. A clay body that doesn’t behave. A figure that refuses to pose nicely. They are not passive. They push back.