Movement in Mud

I am a San Francisco based ceramic artist, currently working mainly in high-fire stoneware. My handbuilt sculptural work grows from the intuitive rhythm and tug of movement in process, where lines and forms hold the memory of hand and gesture. Surfaces are sometimes left bare but always worked obsessively smooth, their shape and rhythm carrying the feeling of fluidity in motion. I lean into the tension between raw and refined, turning the process itself into both obsession and language for connection based in the dialogue between material, body, and emotion, a language that lives in gesture rather than words.