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My journey into the world of three-dimensional art began early in my life during my Waldorf education. There, I was introduced to the tactile world of sculpting with materials like beeswax, wood, and clay. Later, as I pursued my undergraduate degree in painting and drawing, I expanded my interests by exploring sculpture in various mediums such as wax, clay, plaster, mold making, assemblage, and bronze. It wasn’t until much later, in 2005, that I experienced my first ceramics class in hand building. In 2021, I learned how to throw on the pottery wheel.
Handbuilt
Joy, speckled stoneware, underglaze, glaze, carved and sculpted adornments, 2024
Wheel Thrown
Fig Bowl, wheel thrown porcelain with hand painted fig motif on outside, 2023.
Sunset vase, wheel thrown miller porcelain with hand painted glaze, 2023.
Mug of simplicity, wheel thrown electric brown clay with granny white glaze, 2023.
Slip Cast Cow Skulls
A Meditation on the Cycle of Life
My process begins by sculpting a cow’s skull in clay, by hand. Once the sculpture is complete, I then proceed to create a plaster mold of the skull, enabling me to produce multiple copies of the form through the slip-casting technique, allowing for consistency in shape and size. Each skull measures approximately 6 x 7 inches. Lastly, they are adorned with inspired elements of nature through various hand painted or sculpted techniques.
With every skull I create, I explore some aspect of nature—the bloom of a flower, the texture of stone, the flow of water, or even abstract symbols of the natural world. It’s about the cyclical nature of life and death, how everything is born, peaks, and ultimately returns to the earth. By juxtaposing the skull, a symbol of death, with vibrant earthy elements in the living world, I aim to create a dialog between life’s fleeting beauty and its inevitable return to the earth.
