CERAMICS

Developing a ceramics practice has been an essential part of building my identity and values as an artist. My approach to ceramics remains distinct from my two-dimensional work, but has increasingly informed my approach to making work and cultivating studio culture.

The ethos, the values, the community of ceramics are all very aligned with me and my practice, and yet I cannot seem to really get my head and hands fully around what it takes to make ceramic artwork. Whether I like it or not, I am deeply and profoundly averse to making errors in any capacity at any scale in any scenario. Which is probably why other mediums are more intuitive to me. My inclination is to impose my will onto the medium, but with clay, the secret is to allow the medium to impose its will onto you. I am determined to practice ceramics often and forever. I don’t even really care if I never improve. That is not what it's about to me. It is a cosmic anomaly that a control-obsessed creature of particularity like myself is able to even spend enough time around clay to appreciate its magic.

So far, my ceramics practice has developed in three distinct directions. Work that incorporates printmaking techniques or distinct mark-making that conveys a message; work that is wearable, my Various Ornamentations; and more traditional (at least by my standards) functional pottery.