My work navigates the topography of emotional experience: a personal narrative suspended in nostalgia and memory. Through the use of material and iteration, my work metaphorically conveys lineage and influence through texture and narrative. Utilizing the aesthetics of process, my ceramics are the manifestation of small monuments created improvisationally and experimentally. Ceramic medium in the archival form but manipulated through the use of light, perspective and media, a recapitulation and reiteration is created upon itself. Soft color palettes evoke a sense of celebration and reminiscence. I am interested in the notion and extrapolation of “byproduct.” Instead of linear or rigid processes of creating, I engage in experiential play: a sort of call and response that happens between me and the material. I am interested in discovery, nuance, impressions, and the unseen.